Fuck, Fuck and More Fuck

365 Writing Prompt

erika sauter
Jul 21, 2017 · 3 min read
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Writing Prompt: What do you think could help you reach a wider audience?

What do I think could help me reach a wider audience? I think that depends on what it is I’m trying to accomplish.

When I’m paid to have a story or article published in a magazine or online publication it’s standard norm for the editor to tear it apart and mold it to meet what they feel is their reader’s need. I have to be creative, concise and appropriate if I want the story to actually be published, and receive that far from huge payday.

Basically, I can’t use the word fuck.

In efforts to reach a wider audience in this area I need to step up my game in self-promotion. I need to make more of an effort with social media, uh, and stuff like that.

But I’ve noticed on Medium, however, using the word fuck often gains quite a bit of attention. It doesn’t seem to matter if the story is good, or what the story is even about, as long as you use the word fuck you’re golden.

It also helps if you use the word fuck in your click bait title. Then readers will click on it while thinking, I’m going to read this fucking story.

I have 10K followers and I find I’m lucky if I have a couple hundred people view my stories, even less read them and very few recommend them. I wonder, is it because I’m not using the word fuck when I’m telling my fucking story? Whatever the reason, I think it’s fucking bullshit.

I think I might do an open research study and test my hypothesis. Perhaps for one week I’ll use the word fuck in my click bait title and see if my stats go up, but on the flip side of the coin, if I overuse the word fuck, it’ll lose it’s flare and people will stop reading. People will start to think, I’m not reading another one of her fucking stories that has nothing to do with fucking.

In closing, I have no fucking idea what could help me reach a wider audience, at least not on Medium, anyway.

I need to go rinse my mouth with soap.

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erika sauter

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Editorial Reporter@ Hometown Current Newspaper. Iowa County, Iowa. Library patron, cat enthusiast & tree hugger. I write stories, snap photographs and farm.

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