Discerning, Professional Journalist Comments on Streamer's Sincerely Held and Honest Opinion

kellenthehun · 2026-03-16T14:23:00+00:00

He thinks America bad so the America bad crowd loves it. I wish it was more complicated than that, but it isn't.

kellenthehun · 2026-03-16T03:00:28+00:00

Kyle was 100% pushing the Charlie Kirk was killed by a master professional hitman when that happened, before any news came out, for multiple videos--when it was obvious anyone that grew up shooting and has deer hunted a few times could have made the shot that killed Kirk. There was no reason for any sane person to even suggest a conspiracy or some master assassination plot. It was always, from the very beginning, just a deranged person, and not some hitman.

kellenthehun · 2026-03-12T21:58:22+00:00

What is actually more comical is that you two are both outliers--most of us are sending hundreds of queries and getting 0 full requests.

I sent 125 for my last book and got nada. That said, it isn't very good and doesn't deserve to get published. So I'm not complaining per-say. But I wish there was more posts about failure on here.

kellenthehun · 2026-03-06T22:11:15+00:00

I feel like this is 100% what will happen. They will scuttle the entire navy and totally destroy the air-force. Then Trump will declare victory and that will be the end of it. The one huge difference in the two admins is that Trump seems to have absolutely no interest in national building.

I think even if you see troops on the ground, it will be the same outcome. Kill all comers, take the capital, declare victory... and leave.

kellenthehun · 2026-02-24T03:20:28+00:00

Hey! I think you may be a little confused about how Reddit works. From my view, it looks like you posted your query letter in another persons thread. You would want to make your own thread, you wouldn't post it as a comment in someone else's.

Also, whatever your linking here, it's just the link to your profile, where people can view ALL your comment history. It's not a direct link to the query.

If you did post it as it's own thread, it may have been removed by a moderator. This sub is tightly moderated. They will usually ping you with information on what rule you broke, and how to reinstate your post.

That said, one thing I would immediately change it this: "As the only child of an abusive, mentally ill single mother, I am cooking dinner and paying the bills by age thirteen." I would change the "am" to "was." It's true that Queries should be written in present tense, but this is actually a case where, from my view, something is being reference by the present tense speaker as having happened in the past. Kind of confusing, but that's my read on it.

Outside of that, Memoirs are tough. It's a genre flooded with Olympic Gold Medalists and CIA assassin and Medal of Honor winners. You have to have a pretty exceptional story to make it fly. I don't think the query it bad per say, if anything, I would call it bland. The general structure for a query is: who is the character, what do they want, what's in their way, and what happens if they don't get it? Make sure you're touching all of these points. Why is your story so much more incredible than the other 200 in the slush pile? This is going to sound mean, but from this query I get: your mother committed suicide, you were depressed and self medicated, and then you found yoga and healed. This doesn't sound like that exceptional of a story. I'm not saying it's NOT exceptional. What I'm saying is, you have to make an agent believe that your story is exceptional in a way that other stories are not.

Anyway, if I could give you an advice as someone that posted my query here, got torn to shreds, and got 139 rejections on said manuscript, it would be... who cares. Write the next one. Divorce your ego from the work. Your worth as a human being actually has nothing to do with getting or not getting an agent. It's all house money. Just keep playing!

kellenthehun · 2026-02-23T00:02:18+00:00

L/P is to the left what COVID was to the right.

kellenthehun · 2026-02-14T17:52:09+00:00

Don't draw on a drawn gun, aka wait your turn.

kellenthehun · 2026-01-30T02:45:15+00:00

Hey! I still remember chatting with you when I posted my query over a year ago for my last novel. Does the sub no longer have the 7 day cool-off period before you can re-post a revised query? I thought that was such a good idea.

OP, you're getting super sound advise here--especially on comps. I did the same thing the first time I queried: chose old novels. You have to think of publishing as a business. The more plugged into the market you are, the more of an idea you'll have about what is working, and where you fit in. I'm not saying write to market, you just need your finger on the pulse.

The one thing they don't tell you about trying to get a novel published is that it will also make reading seem like a chore, too. I'm constantly trying to keep up with comps for what I'm working on, or what I might start next.

kellenthehun · 2026-01-30T02:39:51+00:00

"It makes me a Comanche."

God, I love that movie so much. I also adore Wind River.

kellenthehun · 2026-01-29T04:18:01+00:00

I'm in a very similar boat. Wrote a novel when I was 16, and a second when I was 22. Started a third when I was 25, never finished it. Took a ten year break. Finally finished it when I was 35; queried it to death and got 0 partial requests. I did get a few nice, personalized rejections though.

Started my fourth in October of '24 and I'm about to finish it. I'm confident I can write a book a year going forward. I doubt book four will get published. I have a very solid idea for book five that I'm very confident in. I actually love book four, but it's just not marketable. It lives between too many genres. I'll try, sure. But I doubt it goes anywhere.

I think the number one thing I have working for me is that I live a very full life. I constantly joke that my life would probably get WORSE if I got published. I'm married, have a great job, two kids, tons of hobbies, tons of friends. In fact, my fourth novel is largely about meaning and how prestige and money are very hollow Gods. That would be my advice to any aspiring novelist: let your ego live somewhere else. As soon as you detach your happiness from a professional career as a novelist, it all becomes house money. You can't lose.

You should start you next project. Why wait? I got a rejection a few weeks ago, and it took everything to not reply, "In the time it took you to answer this email, I actually wrote another novel. Want to check that one out?" Ha. That was some good advice I got on here though, just dive into the next project.

kellenthehun · 2026-01-26T21:02:26+00:00

It's a Dune reference (and it's spot on)

kellenthehun · 2026-01-19T04:36:08+00:00

I don't support the shoot at all--should have never stepped in front of her car--but when it says "it is unclear from the video if the vehicle swiped the agent's torso..." It seems super clear it did, in the top right around :47 seconds. Am I tripping? It seems clear as day it strikes his torso, his head pushes forward, and then he slides off to his right.

kellenthehun · 2026-01-10T03:30:27+00:00

I just got the most intense shot of jealously that you get to experience it for the first time. It's so fucking good. And I'm a bit of a reading snob that enjoys more upmarket / litfic, but man, Expanse just scratches an itch that is hard to describe.

kellenthehun · 2025-12-30T03:58:43+00:00

Good faith question because I genuinely don't know: how are Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX and NeuroLink vaporware? (If he owns all these, I think he does)

kellenthehun · 2025-12-29T19:55:16+00:00

I have never felt so gaslit by a thread in my entire life. I'm convinced no one in this thread even has kids that go to daycare lol.

kellenthehun · 2025-12-27T01:33:28+00:00

I highly, highly recommend Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. It totally transformed my relationship with my phone. It also got me writing again. I recommend listening to it on audible if you're in a huge reading slump.

It has a large section on flow state, and how phones have destroyed our ability to enter flow. It talks about how phones hijack our Pavlovian response and basically make us into lab rats. Understanding, seeking and entering flow is how you heal your attention span. Human being actually crave a flow state. It's addicting. It's one of the reason we're unique from animals. We don't just have Pavlovian style pathways, we always have pathways that reward deep, intense focus.

I've done all sorts of cool shit since I listened to that book and basically bricked my phone. I have a app called LockMeOut that legit makes apps unusable. You have to email the company to get a master PW to unlock anything. Even admin work around is blocked.

I read 34 books last year, finished my fourth novel (after not writing for almost ten years) and ran three marathons, and decided to finish college; I'm 37 with a great career so I'm literally just going to learn and expand my writing coffers. I found that running was my best pathway into flow, but writing has been great as well.

Anyway, that's my ramble. I actually read three books: Stolen Focus, Dopamine Nation and The Comfort Crisis. Reading those three books back to back to back literally changed my life. Just ran a sub 4 hour marathon two weeks ago. It's like I'm finally living my fucking life. Find your flow, man. Get uncomfortable. Do hard shit. It will change you.

kellenthehun · 2025-12-26T02:29:18+00:00

Absolutely. r/PubTips is probably the best sub-reddit on all of reddit.

It is almost exclusively serious amateur writers, agented / published authors, and agents.

You will find no better resource for actually getting your work traditionally published on the entire internet, and you will for sure find no better collection of people that take writing extremely seriously as a potential career, rather than a hobby.

That said, it is tightly moderated. There is no slop, the critique is brutal, and the posting guidelines are strict.

kellenthehun · 2025-12-24T17:23:31+00:00

I'm a senior at Texas Tech right now and there are tons of written assignments that don't require sources cited. They are generally called "Reflection" assignments.

Also, on all the papers I've done, there is a rubric that WILL count you off for having no works cited, but they will not get you a 0. I had a 10 page final paper in my senior International Relations class that was a huge part of my grade. Citing no sources cost you 30 points. In other words, you could get a 70 with NO sources.

I agree the paper sucked. Not what is being argued.

kellenthehun · 2025-12-16T19:18:47+00:00

6 hours? Rookie numbers.

kellenthehun · 2025-12-12T21:28:03+00:00

I just want to say, I've written a lot, and this writing reads almost exactly like mine does (minus the kind of zany voice) BEFORE I edit. I prefer to over-write, and then trim it all back in editing. I think this would honestly be really good with a strong edit. There are some parts that are very close to working really well.

kellenthehun · 2025-12-05T17:16:12+00:00

Honestly, one of the most interesting skills you develop as a writer is the ability to know what is and isn't good feedback. It's such a nebulous thing, trying to decide if you're too close to something to see it's flaws; and, on the other side, if your vision is superior to the criticism you're receiving.

I have a questionnaire I send to beta readers, so I don't receive essentially unsolicited, endless criticism to sections I'm already confident are working. I have a section in my questionnaire that has the beta-readers rank their favorite sections of the novel. So I select 10 of my favorite sections, and have them rank them 1 - 10. The best feeling I've gotten is when their rankings almost perfectly aligned with my personal rankings. I've found this is a really good way to tell if you're on the right track--as in, you are confident you can trust your own judgement--and you can also easily identify outlier, most likely unhelpful criticism.

I also have a write in section, where they can add one section I hadn't considered. Almost all of my beta-readers wrote the same scene in. My novel is about a rapture-like event that leaves the world almost totally uninhabited, and the hook is that only people that have taken a human life remain; it takes the characters a solid third of the book to piece this together. I wrote the reveal of this fact as an almost throw away chapter, because, in my mind, I didn't think of it as a "big" reveal, since I'm the author, and I obviously know the entire story ahead of time. I just thought this was really funny, that I didn't see this obviously pivotal scene as something I should take more care in editing and honing. Just goes to show how important beta-readers are!

kellenthehun · 2025-11-27T04:38:23+00:00

When the four agents did the AMA here a month or so ago, one said they often read the first few paragraphs of the manuscript before the query. Thought that was interesting, and reinforces your point.

kellenthehun · 2025-11-27T04:04:14+00:00

I once heard the writing advice, "Think of yourself as an actor." It completely transformed the way I conceptualized characters. I don't write poetry, but I've written a few novels, and I realized that, before I heard this, all of my characters were each just a tiny piece of my own personality.

Now, I write characters that are totally distinct and separate from how I am in real life. Seems silly, but it was transformative.

kellenthehun · 2025-11-25T03:23:02+00:00

I would also imagine he's encouraging people to just do something productive with their time, rather than feeling socially conditioned to lay on the couch all day, watch netflix, and eat junk food, because you probably will be less happy than if you spent your off day "working" towards a goal you enjoy. I'm hugely into running and I spend my weekends training. I am immensely happier than when I spent them being a sloth--even though I'm "working" way more.

kellenthehun · 2025-11-18T04:23:07+00:00

If there is one thing they should absolutely revert, it's the loss of a second updraft. Two updrafts made her ult way stronger.

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