I was posting on my alt account about my writing journey and how it’s been going. I already finished the fourth and hopefully final for now draft of the start of my planned series. A series I want to start now but plan on publishing when I have some kind of audience finally. The final draft is over 80k words with the help of some editor friends, but before showing my work to professional editors or agents.

Now I am in the process of drafting and outlining the second book in the series, but starting the book I actually want to be my debut novel which has barely broken 1000 words. On top of that, I’m finishing my last year of undergrad, learning unreal engine because I wanted to eventually have a game attached to my series (not saying it will be successful I doubt it will but I wanted to create a media franchise for my work someday), trying to start up a little youtube channel to build an audience early, and running my small business with my brother. Obviously time isn’t something I have in abundance but I do what I can

I have gotten some great advice from people, including authors with published work. But recently an small author with a fairly decent audience size told me if I want any success my best bet is to wait and keep doing more writing until I can get to the point of releasing a new book every 30 days for X amount of years as a strategy of improving my odds for success and growing my audience. And on paper that does work. But I don’t think that would work for someone like me. For starters it takes me a damn long time to get this stuff done. I do know I will probably need to release dozens of books before I ever achieve success but one book per month doesn’t feel achievable for me. On top of that I prefer writing books that have some heft to them. I don’t mean they will all be Moby Dick sized. And I wouldn’t mind releasing some novellas to start. But one book a month doesn’t feel like even I would be satisfied with the work that comes out. Even if I stockpile them and sit on them until I have 12 to 24 books I can keep releasing every month for a year or two that just doesn’t sit right with me. I am super detail oriented and like having a strong sense of closure in my work. And I have so many things I’m trying to achieve.

If that really is one of the most realistic paths to success then am I just wasting my time here?