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Good Writers Stay Broke Because They Ignore the Simple Truths
The Park Bench Method of Writing Rapid Release Fiction without Burning Out

| The Park Bench Method of Writing Rapid Release Fiction without Burning Out, by Wendy Christine Allen |



By Wendy C Allen

Good Writers Stay Broke Because They Ignore the Simple Truths

Let’s cut through the fairy dust and ego-stroking bullshit.

You can write. You know you can write. You’ve got the raw goddamned skill. You’ve got readers who cry over your chapters. You’ve got messages in your inbox that say "your story changed my life." You’ve got notebooks full of brilliance and dialogue that sings like thunder and trauma wounds stitched into metaphors with diamond thread.

And yet—your bank account looks like it belongs to a depressed sock puppet.

Why?

Because you’re not writing the part that gets paid.

The Talent Myth Is Keeping You Poor

You think talent is enough. It ain’t. Talent is expected. Talent is baseline. Talent is what gets your foot in the door, but it sure as hell won’t pay your rent unless you’ve got the guts to learn the rest of the game.

Stop hiding behind talent like it’s a shield from reality. “I’m a real artist, I don’t write for money.” Okay, sure. Keep that energy when you’re rationing your last bag of rice while some TikTok tarot girl with a half-baked werewolf erotica novella is cashing five-figure Amazon payouts. You’re not poor because you ain’t good. You’re poor because you ain’t strategic.

And here’s the real kicker: you’re not broke because you’re undesirable. You’re broke because you’re selfish.

Yeah, I said it.

You Write for Yourself—and That’s the Problem

You’re writing what you want to write.
You’re chasing your own obsessions, your own aesthetics, your own poetic indulgences.
You’re sitting on your bench, watching birds, describing dew on spiderwebs like it’s the second coming of Tolkien, but you never once stopped to ask: does anyone want to read this?

Writing is art, yes. But publishing? Publishing is sales.
And if you want to make money, you’d better learn to treat your work like a business. And what does business do?

Business solves problems.

Readers don’t pay you to wax poetic.
They pay you to give them what they came for.

Escape. Catharsis. A damn good time.
Romance readers want their slow burn.
Thriller readers want to feel like someone’s gonna die on the next page.
Fantasy readers want to be swallowed whole by another world.
Dark fiction readers want blood and beauty and a villain to love.
Slice-of-life readers? They want raw. Real. Honest. They want to feel seen.

So why the hell are you writing like no one else is going to read it?

Good Writing That No One Reads Is Just a Hobby

You can sit there and bleed into your notebook until you rot, but if it stays on your hard drive or hidden behind your insecurity, that ain’t a career. That’s a diary.

Real writers publish.

And real authors don’t just publish—they do the research. They pay attention to what’s trending, what readers are raving about, what tropes are hot, what titles are clicking. They read their own genre. They stalk the charts. They listen more than they speak.

They treat their readers like humans—not just a faceless audience, but a community of souls looking for connection, comfort, escape, healing, a little fun, a little filth, a little hope.

You are not selling out by giving them what they came for.

You are finally showing up and respecting your craft like it’s worth paying for.

Write First. Edit Later. Sell Smarter.

You don’t need a fancy degree.
You don’t need a seven-act structure or some university-vetted plot template with colour-coded index cards.
You don’t need to write like Neil Gaiman or Stephen King or whoever the latest golden god of Twitter is.

You need to write with honesty, edit with intent, and publish with a fucking plan.

Ask yourself:

  • Who is this story for?
  • What shelf does it go on?
  • What emotions will it trigger in the reader?
  • What promise does the blurb make?
  • What experience does the title hint at?
  • What part of this will someone pay to feel?

Then go write that part. Not once. Not twice. Relentlessly.

Stop Pretending You’re Powerless

I see writers acting like the algorithm is out to get them.
Like Amazon has a vendetta.
Like readers are just too stupid to “get” their art.

No, honey. Readers get it. They just didn’t want it.

If your stuff ain’t selling, stop blaming the market. The market ain’t your enemy. The market is data. The market is the world's biggest mirror. And if the reflection hurts, maybe it's time you stop flinching and start fixing.

Because you’re not powerless. You’re just stubborn.

You think success should come to you. That your genius should be enough. That your stories should sell because they’re important to you.

But readers don’t care what’s important to you. They care what hits them in the gut. You wanna sell? Hit them in the gut.

Write the scenes that make them cry.
Write the trauma they lived through.
Write the escape they crave, the smut they fantasize about, the monsters they fear, the kisses they wish they could have.

You Already Have Everything You Need

If you can write, you can earn.
If you can finish a book, you can sell a book.
If you can move someone with your words, you can build a career.
But only if you stop writing like nobody’s watching.
Only if you stop hiding behind talent and start writing with purpose.

You already have the stories.
Now write the part that gets paid.

| ©2025 Wendy Christine Allen | All Rights Reserved |

The Park Bench Method To Writing (and the series of articles and rants that go with it)

I've Written An Entire Series on The Park Bench Method of Writing. Here are more of the articles in this set: 

The Park Bench Method To Writing (Just the article - no prompt lists)

The Park Bench Method of Writing (the really old long, rambly post from years ago; the long page with over 10k writing prompts and lots of lists)

Want to see The Park Bench Method of Writing Rapid Release Fiction without Burning Out, in action? Each of the stories linked below, used it:

Looking to read more Quaraun stories?

  • Stuff over 5k and under 20k words I post on GumRoad.

Writing Prompts I Use When Writing this series:






While there are around 20k pages on this website, most of them are blocked from search engines, with only around 800 of them available for appearing in Google/Bing/etc search results. The remainder can only be accessed via the various links found throughout this site. This was done deliberately on my part, and I did it because the bulk of the pages on this website are chapters from 138 novels and 423 novellas, so only the first page of each novel and novella indexed by search engines, and the remainder are linked in order, one page at a time, via clicking "next page" at the end of each. So if you are looking for a specific page from a specific novel, Google can't help you.



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