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Are you writing a book or are publishing a book? Those are two separate things and if you search up the word authortube on YouTube you’ll get a bunch of people who are looking to publish and not many for fun. And honestly, most of them are not professionals and shouldn’t have their advice be taken.
Writing a draft is not hard and creating ideas isn’t too difficult (the snowflake method is the most popular way to create ideas from a singular idea.) It’s what comes afterwards: revisions (plot, characters, etc.), editing the words, doing those over and over until it is finished.
You don’t need to publish your first manuscript. It’s fine to just write a story or a few for yourself and later on decide if they are ready to go to a publisher or self publish.
Authortubers I like the most are: shaelinwrites, katytastic and Liselle Sambury. The first two both have degrees I think and shaelin is an editor.
I do believe in the numbers of being locked out without “piracy”. The average person is mostly trying to watch TV and movies, even games, that are locked by region. That requires a VPN at a mostly legal level. Without it, the # of legal accounts would drop and would be more costly.
Piracy of old was the only way and now the new ways are going back to old. This time however, there are more official ways of getting things without sketchy sites. A VPN, modding or a cracked app isn’t going to solve real piracy in the future if companies are letting untapped money sit out untouched.