I recently invited my entire friends list to like and follow the Rolling with Scissors page. I know not everyone pays attention to those invites, and some people just don’t care about following other pages, which is fine. But if you only follow my personal page, you’re going to miss a lot of what I post. This is one of the few times I’m cross-posting something because I actually want your input. So if you want to keep up with what I’m doing, go follow the page—or better yet, bookmark the website at rws.osmondtech.com/ so you don’t miss anything.
You’ve probably heard me mention here and there that I’ve thought about writing a book. I never made a big deal out of it, but it’s been something I’ve worked on in the background for a while now. The idea was to take Prince of Darkness Chronicles and expand it into something more structured, but the more I think about it, the more I question whether a book even makes sense anymore. That’s not to say books don’t matter—I know for my generation and the one before it, there’s something special about holding a physical book in your hands. But let’s be real: the way we consume content has changed. People don’t read the way they used to.
I love telling stories, and I have plenty more to tell. But part of me wonders if putting together a book is just repackaging what I’m already doing on the blog. Right now, I can post something anytime and put it directly in front of people. You don’t have to wait for a book to be finished, formatted, and printed. You can read it immediately and engage with it in real time. But would you rather have something more structured? Something you could hold, download, or read in one sitting instead of waiting for blog posts?
I can sit here and analyze it all day, but what I really want to know is what you think. Would you actually read a book based on the blog? Or do you prefer the way I do things now, with new stories rolling out as they come to me? Would an e-book version of the blog be a good middle ground, or is this format already working?
And one more thing—if you’re going to respond, do it on the blog. If you’re reading this post, then you’re already here, so why go back to social media to comment? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I don’t care about the algorithm. If you have something to say, leave a comment where the discussion is actually happening, not buried in a Facebook thread where it gets lost in the noise. Let me know what you think at rws.osmondtech.com/ because that’s where this conversation belongs.