I'm not even sure how to tell this story- but over the weekend, I learned the older of my HS daughters wrote a book over the last year.
It is just over 1000 pages long, is published online, and over 40,000 people have read it.
Scratchy Johnson 🇺🇸
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Scratchy Johnson 🇺🇸
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- Replying to @scratchyjohnsonThe internet allows for connectivity in ways that were hard to imagine just a few years ago. I just wanted to give an example of a positive outcome to balance all the negativity we normally come in contact with.
- Imagine how unskilled you have to be to think this is skilled labor"Unskilled labor" is a capitalist myth.
00:00 - Replying to @scratchyjohnsonThe platform tracks the size of the story (315,463 words), the amount of people reading, and number who have finished. That's the part I can't get over- that over 40k young people have *finished* the behemoth.
- Replying to @scratchyjohnsonAfter a few more chapters, she was contacted by a girl from South Africa who offered to proofread and otherwise help edit. They have worked together for the remaining 56 chapters. They are currently brainstorming for new storylines.
- Replying to @scratchyjohnsonShe has always been a voracious reader. At one point she read a bunch of graphic novels,then found serialized ones online. Eventually, she was following along with multiple regular serialized stories, where the authors would release a chapter every other week
- Replying to @scratchyjohnsonWhat is interesting is the authors are younger,and it's only online. I dont think most adults are even aware these platforms exist. It's kind of a white pill that young people are self-organizing this way. Readers can leave comments, boost good stories, etc.
- Replying to @scratchyjohnsonShe wrote this story in her "spare" time- outside of a busy schedule of school, band, sports and work. Often, she was writing on the school bus, and when we thought she was in bed. None of us have read it yet- its an adventure story based in 15c Scotland (?)
- Replying to @scratchyjohnsonMy daughter got it in her head to start writing and layed out the story. She waited until she had a few chapters done before uploading. After positive feedback, she started to get subscribers and had to get serious.
It costs an average of $20,813 per year to raise a single child in the US, per CNBC.- Replying to @nealjclark1I assumed they were together, meeting up after the husband finished work.
- Replying to @TheAmandaGormanI'd rather eat marmalade Made of deadly nightshade than to be caught in this junior grade rhyming ambuscade
- Replying to @lagunacartaYes, I was thinking of looking into that very thing
- I've swung a hammer for 35 years, but I don't understand labor because I own the hammer
