I thought I'd start a thread to discuss one of the best literary and artistic achievements in decades.

The story is straight up Shakespearean and the animation is beyond groundbreaking.

And the characters, Jesus...I'm pretty sure I need therapy now.

Have you watched it?

What did you think?

This is why a hard cap on how much money FB can spend can be a help. FB will always tell you if you hit that cap, and meanwhile, it can't go nuts and spend your entire life savings.

Life savings. What a concept.

It is true that repetition is a valid educational strategy. But its relevance is situational. Teachers use it with very difficult concepts or with material that is necessary but not intrinsically interesting. (Of course, you try to make it as interesting as you can, but if you are pragmatic, you also know that tune-in rates are just going to be lower.)

But authors seeking something like new sales techniques are highly motivated, so tune-in rates will be high. And people with enough background to be able to use the techniques effectively are probably sophisticated enough that they don't need as much time for the material to sink in.

One can also liken signing up for all these courses to a standard self-help book, in which the author repeats their Big Idea endlessly throughout the book but couches it in slightly different terms each time. The hope of that author is that one of those iterations will strike a chord with the reader. The hope of the class attendee is that one word or sentence--or even one realization during the class--will finally impel them over the threshold from would-be author to real author.

I went to conferences for many years before I finished a manuscript. Maybe some people want an actual secret or shortcut, but I wanted to find or activate a shortcut in my brain to connect the desire to write to the practice of writing. There's a standard piece of advice in the business world that you should hang out with the people you admire and want to emulate. But it's not much fun when you aren't in their league, when you aren't doing the work to join their league, and yet you want to.
 

I agree. If I had to spend big bucks creating a paperback, I wouldn't do it. Vellum makes it easy to do (as, I suppose, do the PC equivalents).

So far, advertising paperbacks as part of my AMS advertising on selected books seems to have moved some AND improved ROI. However, I am having a very odd couple of months for sales.