Erich w/ an h
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Jason Pargin:
Hey Jason! It seems that TikTok is now your primary social media format, which itself is a wild thought. Was it hard to shift to short form video compared to long form and list article writing?
Jason Pargin
Well I do still have a site for my longform columns (jasonpargin.substack.com) but yeah I reach a thousand times more people on TikTok. I mean prior to joining I had basically zero experience doing any kind of on-camera work at all aside from a couple of classes in college 25 years ago. I mean, for the first ten years of my blogging career I remained totally anonymous, writing under a pseudonym and keeping my photo hidden (until 2007, when the JDATE hardcover came out and I was hired at Cracked, in both cases making my real name/face public). So I never wanted my own face/personality to be tied to the work, but that's not the way the world works now. At least not for me!
The audience has all moved to TikTok so that's where I went, then spent a solid month last year just... learning how to be an on-camera personality. I realize not every author has to do that kind of thing but I definitely do
The audience has all moved to TikTok so that's where I went, then spent a solid month last year just... learning how to be an on-camera personality. I realize not every author has to do that kind of thing but I definitely do
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Erich w/ an h
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Jason Pargin:
Hey Jason! You've mentioned that your upcoming novel ("I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom") is a standalone. When coming into this novel, did you decide first that it was going to be a standalone, or did you have a plot that wasn't working within the JDatE or Zoey universes?
Weaselstink
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Jason Pargin:
Hey Jason, now that I know you don't read any of these questions, I thought I might as well just scream into the void and ask if you have any advice for writing and self-publishing a book, as I am trying to do that. Like is it a good idea to be good at writing before I do that? Or should I spew out 100 pages or so of garbage and call it good? Any other advice you have would be helpful as well. Thanks if you do answer!
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Oct 01, 2024 09:04AM