Yeah I can’t like this article because of this kind of mentality. Making money from writing about telling people how to supposedly make money writing when you make money from broke writers is certainly a pyramid scheme, but that doesn’t mean you have to act like a deranged starving artiste whatever. And as one of the above posters put it, he seems to be broke since his business model doesn’t seem all that effective since his target audience has barely any money to give him. At least con rich people by telling them to put crystal eggs up their vaginas like Gwenyth Paltrow or something if you want money.
The pervasive hustle culture instills in us a constant desire for more. More money, more possessions, more of everything. This mindset stems from the societal pressure to increase wealth and success. With myths, rumors, and overhyped promises surrounding marketing, it can be hard to decipher what is real and what is just hype.
I'm exhausted and frustrated with the constant emphasis on money, where it seems like you need to spend money in order to make money. Does that even make sense?
He gives his address in his emails. If you check it out on Google Earth it looks like a launderette or something. Maybe he's not a millionaire after all. I blocked him in November 2023 because I was sick of the posts and emails that were effectively the same as the last one but with the words switched around a bit.
Yeah he's moved his seven-figure claims up to eight figures but still complains of a mortgage. I assume he's mostly AI although there's probably a real person associated in some way. I have talked briefly to a person claiming to be Tim Denning. AI is writing at fifth grade right now, and that's become the desired level across many mediums.
As soon as Denning surfaced on my feed, I blocked him. Job done. That and several other boring ass writers from Medium. No point complaining about them. Waste of energy.
I'm with you both. Spent five years on Medium and could not for the life of me understand why so many idiots were sucking Denning dick. He can't write for shit, but he makes money, therefore he's god. No he isn't. Normally I'm not that caustic, but he broke the plate for me when he fat-shamed and personally attacked one of the most successful female writers on Medium who has suffered from lipedema for years. It was uncalled-for, brutally ugly and after that, in my book, he was a pieceashit.
Wow, wow and wow. Frank T. Bird, I agree. It seems that Tim Denning thrives on dissing and condeming people who are "broke" or the "hell of average." Not kind, not empathetic to the struggles of others, not even polite enough to reply to a comment. It does not reflect well on Tim. I have been a member of the working poor for more than 40 years. I have worked at some kind of job all my life, worked until I was 68. I do not object to the wealthy...but really, how much does one need to have a simple life??? A basic roof over our heads, food on the table, clothes to wear, some way of transport, a few nice things around the edges. Our Western culture is awash in STUFF and more STUFF. Who the heck needs a huge house and a luxury car and all the attendant maintenance of such things? Simplicity frees you from some of that. Yes, I struggle and yes, I may never make "big bucks" from the joy of my love of words and writing...but I offer encouragement, kindness, compassion, empathy and a shoulder to cry on sometimes. This world is so hard, who needs more condemnation from "success sites"? I would rather have less in peace than more in stress. Thank you again for this very relevant screed, heard by many of us. I am not naive, life is tough...but this place is temporary. As a woman of God, I live for Eternity, not this place alone. Recently read a line that "got " me, "the one who dies with the most toys is still dead." Amen to that. Write our hearts, our experience, our learnings to help someone else. WEW
This is the sort of war cry that deserves to be recorded snarled aloud, the subject in question (Denning) strapped into an uncomfortable chair, headphones strapped to his skull, and blasted at maximum volume on a repeating loop until he gets the message.
The Art of Narrative is not an ATM, Denning. It is a dragon, beautiful and potent, awesome in the original sense of the word. Yet he would lash the beast, attempt to cage it, torture it into a submissive, mewling thing he can feed keyboard strokes in exchange for collecting the gold it craps out its backside. That he targets those artists desperate to see financial gain from their endeavors is not shocking; there seems to be an easily accessed pool of such folks to select from.
After all, who would sneer or turn their nose up at turning their own written works into something profitable, right? But that shouldn't be the point. The point should be that we each get to create our own wyrm of words, to send it flitting through the skies of readers' imaginations, and give them joy of that beast!
Same with me. Relentless is a good word. I read one article of his and it was so poorly written I was appalled. And yet people worship him because...money. Go figure.
I just had a fucking vision when I re-read, for the umpteenth time, "Becuase we are fucking writers". It was you, with a writing workshop/blog/revenue stream . think, Chuck Palahniuk writing workshops, but by you, online. Because Tiny Tim Dimmings couldn't write himself out of a bag of white lotus tea. You have the fucking power, and Tim Dumphudge does not. He's a bot-farm bizzo. A shit-bot, a fucking AI cancer. Sucking the life out of budding writers. So FUCK HIS REVENUE STREAM
Well of course I'd find you, overflowing ashtray, over here at T-Bird where those who can turn a phrase are likely to aggregate. I tried very hard last year to joke this Tim out of his fixation upon money at the expense of ideas, but the man is not to be bantered with. By "man" I mean something that's probably fifty-fifty bot at this point and getting botter. To his credit, he told his sidekick Todd that he doesn't do jokes, and despite my best efforts he remained true to his principles on that score. As for what you and I might yet accomplish, Ash, by way of stemming the tide on the likes of the world's Dennings, well, we shall see. Teach me to wield a microphone, as we plan, and we'll have lip-words for the Dennings, you and I. Maybe we'll get this T-Bird in on the action--he's a frank man and he's been a surprise find in a world that seems to have lost its wordway. --david
I’m plotting to place T-Bird’s neoclassical works in the public libraries here in Volcanoville. Better yet, having them on the year 10 English curriculum, in the best Socratic tradition!
Ten Dimming reads like one of those ads for an unnecessary supplement, like sawdust sprayed with berberine scent in a capsule, marketed by a white-coated fraudster with a full set of veneers.
We need that first teleconference, Dr. Thor, for the world is quickly falling apart, and it’s up to us to give everyone some false hope, while fleecing them for merch.
Well, I belly laughed at your Denning summary. It’s six in our a.m. here. In truth, I can’t remember the next step in crossing the great gulf to you on the other side of what counts as our world.
Brilliant, Frank. I came across (so to speak) this character and people of his ilk and couldn’t quite believe what I was reading. Thank you for speaking out. It needed to be aired.
This needed to get said. I notice in your notes that even your vaunted Reuben Salsa (and I'll certainly check out this entity) implied that what you've said didn't need to get said but was as simple as blocking an obviously strident imposter. Fair enough, in one way. But if I blocked every adult sending me fifth-grade compositions I'd spend my Substack time playing whack-a-mole instead of enjoying the freakish cringe pleasures of oddly revealing typos and grammatical infelicities. I'll take what I can get. Today, I got you. What the hell? Why did the algorithm wait fifteen months to send me a writer who could...what's that word? oh yeah...a writer who could write. [no question mark]
The cussing might not weather well. I'll check back in a year. But if it's not for all time it's for a time. If more people had offered a single cuss in relation to Denning perhaps this guy wouldn't have needed to stockpile them here.
Plus after the first few rounds of enthusiastic cussing there's this to soften the energy a bit: "I look at his picture and see a good bloke. Denning doesn’t have eyes of evil. He’s just found himself down this goddamn rabbit hole of a niche..."
To which I would add that Denning has a wife and a mortgage and a kid, a sort of trifecta of pressure.
Not that I haven't spent these fifteen months of mine at Substack having a go at Denning and everything he stands for...
"Fuck this" or even "them" is normal and it certainly helps when I stub my toe!
We can and should be able to voice our frustration!
But when it is used in anger ( like most things we do in anger ) it is a capitulation of the brain... that shows that we should calm down first.. get our balance back... restraint of pen and tongue ... no, not easy!!!
Who isn't frustrated? Most people are surviving instead of living, the corruption, deceit and betrayl are so bad that most people go into denial .. they just can't cope with it. As if it weren't bad enough, more and more bad stuff is being done, seemingly everyday!
Most people feel totally helpless.. no wonder we are angry and we should be!!
Taking action is the solution and I'm grateful for the people that do speak up!
Maybe we will finally take some real action, once the awareness is raised.
But we should be careful to not ruin a good point or piece by being overly emotional.
Alright An, let's meet here in a year. I hear you. Hell, this excellent fulminator himself might have enthusiast's remorse by now, a full day later. Still, his name is Frank, so we should expect a certain candor.
As a former streetfighter turned all I Am meditator and give peace a chance and such, I def hear you. I def hear you.
Bravo you clever bitch. I loved it. I abhor what that man does. This was exquisite. Read it twice. Just cleansed my erection with a stuffed animal and now I'm ready for bed.
The advantage of Substack is that this piece would get you banned on Medium
"We’ll probably die broke, drunk and in a brothel from syphilis". Maybe YOU will...
I got sick of that guy a long time ago, so you're doing us a favor calling him out.
Yeah I can’t like this article because of this kind of mentality. Making money from writing about telling people how to supposedly make money writing when you make money from broke writers is certainly a pyramid scheme, but that doesn’t mean you have to act like a deranged starving artiste whatever. And as one of the above posters put it, he seems to be broke since his business model doesn’t seem all that effective since his target audience has barely any money to give him. At least con rich people by telling them to put crystal eggs up their vaginas like Gwenyth Paltrow or something if you want money.
Medium vibes on Substack. Writers are starving, AI is laughing. perhaps TD is AI :)
Yes, he and his Tennessee sidekick Todd admit freely that they use AI. Unless it's AI using them.
The pervasive hustle culture instills in us a constant desire for more. More money, more possessions, more of everything. This mindset stems from the societal pressure to increase wealth and success. With myths, rumors, and overhyped promises surrounding marketing, it can be hard to decipher what is real and what is just hype.
I'm exhausted and frustrated with the constant emphasis on money, where it seems like you need to spend money in order to make money. Does that even make sense?
He gives his address in his emails. If you check it out on Google Earth it looks like a launderette or something. Maybe he's not a millionaire after all. I blocked him in November 2023 because I was sick of the posts and emails that were effectively the same as the last one but with the words switched around a bit.
Yeah he's moved his seven-figure claims up to eight figures but still complains of a mortgage. I assume he's mostly AI although there's probably a real person associated in some way. I have talked briefly to a person claiming to be Tim Denning. AI is writing at fifth grade right now, and that's become the desired level across many mediums.
This is too funny and true. He’s not a good writer, in fact a majority of them aren’t.
Ever read Kristina God?
Holy shit!
In my opinion, I think because Covid kept everyone home, lots of people were reading and searching for solutions.
Some found an audience and made $.
That ship has sailed.
I ask myself all the time, why am I still there?
I hardly read anyone’s stuff.
You on the other hand, always get me chuckling.
Much love.
Did someone call me delusional? 😆
As soon as Denning surfaced on my feed, I blocked him. Job done. That and several other boring ass writers from Medium. No point complaining about them. Waste of energy.
Thanks for the shout out buddy.
I'm with you both. Spent five years on Medium and could not for the life of me understand why so many idiots were sucking Denning dick. He can't write for shit, but he makes money, therefore he's god. No he isn't. Normally I'm not that caustic, but he broke the plate for me when he fat-shamed and personally attacked one of the most successful female writers on Medium who has suffered from lipedema for years. It was uncalled-for, brutally ugly and after that, in my book, he was a pieceashit.
Wow, wow and wow. Frank T. Bird, I agree. It seems that Tim Denning thrives on dissing and condeming people who are "broke" or the "hell of average." Not kind, not empathetic to the struggles of others, not even polite enough to reply to a comment. It does not reflect well on Tim. I have been a member of the working poor for more than 40 years. I have worked at some kind of job all my life, worked until I was 68. I do not object to the wealthy...but really, how much does one need to have a simple life??? A basic roof over our heads, food on the table, clothes to wear, some way of transport, a few nice things around the edges. Our Western culture is awash in STUFF and more STUFF. Who the heck needs a huge house and a luxury car and all the attendant maintenance of such things? Simplicity frees you from some of that. Yes, I struggle and yes, I may never make "big bucks" from the joy of my love of words and writing...but I offer encouragement, kindness, compassion, empathy and a shoulder to cry on sometimes. This world is so hard, who needs more condemnation from "success sites"? I would rather have less in peace than more in stress. Thank you again for this very relevant screed, heard by many of us. I am not naive, life is tough...but this place is temporary. As a woman of God, I live for Eternity, not this place alone. Recently read a line that "got " me, "the one who dies with the most toys is still dead." Amen to that. Write our hearts, our experience, our learnings to help someone else. WEW
This is the sort of war cry that deserves to be recorded snarled aloud, the subject in question (Denning) strapped into an uncomfortable chair, headphones strapped to his skull, and blasted at maximum volume on a repeating loop until he gets the message.
The Art of Narrative is not an ATM, Denning. It is a dragon, beautiful and potent, awesome in the original sense of the word. Yet he would lash the beast, attempt to cage it, torture it into a submissive, mewling thing he can feed keyboard strokes in exchange for collecting the gold it craps out its backside. That he targets those artists desperate to see financial gain from their endeavors is not shocking; there seems to be an easily accessed pool of such folks to select from.
After all, who would sneer or turn their nose up at turning their own written works into something profitable, right? But that shouldn't be the point. The point should be that we each get to create our own wyrm of words, to send it flitting through the skies of readers' imaginations, and give them joy of that beast!
Or something like that.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Hear hear and hear. I disliked Denning on Medium and that has grown to despising his shit pretty much everywhere.
I never followed him but that didn't stop his junk from relentlessly showing up in my feed.
Same with me. Relentless is a good word. I read one article of his and it was so poorly written I was appalled. And yet people worship him because...money. Go figure.
I'll never understand it. But the dangling carrots can be intoxicating I suppose.
Me neither. We are both sick with the notion that we deliver value first, and with luck followers will decide to pay us. Silly us.
🤣🤣
"Wildhood Wanted" phrase noted, thank-you.
I just had a fucking vision when I re-read, for the umpteenth time, "Becuase we are fucking writers". It was you, with a writing workshop/blog/revenue stream . think, Chuck Palahniuk writing workshops, but by you, online. Because Tiny Tim Dimmings couldn't write himself out of a bag of white lotus tea. You have the fucking power, and Tim Dumphudge does not. He's a bot-farm bizzo. A shit-bot, a fucking AI cancer. Sucking the life out of budding writers. So FUCK HIS REVENUE STREAM
Well of course I'd find you, overflowing ashtray, over here at T-Bird where those who can turn a phrase are likely to aggregate. I tried very hard last year to joke this Tim out of his fixation upon money at the expense of ideas, but the man is not to be bantered with. By "man" I mean something that's probably fifty-fifty bot at this point and getting botter. To his credit, he told his sidekick Todd that he doesn't do jokes, and despite my best efforts he remained true to his principles on that score. As for what you and I might yet accomplish, Ash, by way of stemming the tide on the likes of the world's Dennings, well, we shall see. Teach me to wield a microphone, as we plan, and we'll have lip-words for the Dennings, you and I. Maybe we'll get this T-Bird in on the action--he's a frank man and he's been a surprise find in a world that seems to have lost its wordway. --david
I’m plotting to place T-Bird’s neoclassical works in the public libraries here in Volcanoville. Better yet, having them on the year 10 English curriculum, in the best Socratic tradition!
Ten Dimming reads like one of those ads for an unnecessary supplement, like sawdust sprayed with berberine scent in a capsule, marketed by a white-coated fraudster with a full set of veneers.
We need that first teleconference, Dr. Thor, for the world is quickly falling apart, and it’s up to us to give everyone some false hope, while fleecing them for merch.
When Denning got a house and a mortgage I said to him:
Tim, denning.
He was not amused. I had descended to base puns, and he still wasn’t amused. So I say, it’s on with berberine and sawdust and forget the low puns.
Just looked up berberine, which added new layers of comedy.
Well, I belly laughed at your Denning summary. It’s six in our a.m. here. In truth, I can’t remember the next step in crossing the great gulf to you on the other side of what counts as our world.
Brilliant, Frank. I came across (so to speak) this character and people of his ilk and couldn’t quite believe what I was reading. Thank you for speaking out. It needed to be aired.
"ilk"
We were thinking it. Someone had to say it.
I'm British and part Scottish. It's in my nature! :D
This needed to get said. I notice in your notes that even your vaunted Reuben Salsa (and I'll certainly check out this entity) implied that what you've said didn't need to get said but was as simple as blocking an obviously strident imposter. Fair enough, in one way. But if I blocked every adult sending me fifth-grade compositions I'd spend my Substack time playing whack-a-mole instead of enjoying the freakish cringe pleasures of oddly revealing typos and grammatical infelicities. I'll take what I can get. Today, I got you. What the hell? Why did the algorithm wait fifteen months to send me a writer who could...what's that word? oh yeah...a writer who could write. [no question mark]
True!
... maybe a little less anger/ cussing might help... just a little.
LOL
The cussing might not weather well. I'll check back in a year. But if it's not for all time it's for a time. If more people had offered a single cuss in relation to Denning perhaps this guy wouldn't have needed to stockpile them here.
Plus after the first few rounds of enthusiastic cussing there's this to soften the energy a bit: "I look at his picture and see a good bloke. Denning doesn’t have eyes of evil. He’s just found himself down this goddamn rabbit hole of a niche..."
To which I would add that Denning has a wife and a mortgage and a kid, a sort of trifecta of pressure.
Not that I haven't spent these fifteen months of mine at Substack having a go at Denning and everything he stands for...
In my opinion it won't... to me, the occaisonal
"Fuck this" or even "them" is normal and it certainly helps when I stub my toe!
We can and should be able to voice our frustration!
But when it is used in anger ( like most things we do in anger ) it is a capitulation of the brain... that shows that we should calm down first.. get our balance back... restraint of pen and tongue ... no, not easy!!!
Who isn't frustrated? Most people are surviving instead of living, the corruption, deceit and betrayl are so bad that most people go into denial .. they just can't cope with it. As if it weren't bad enough, more and more bad stuff is being done, seemingly everyday!
Most people feel totally helpless.. no wonder we are angry and we should be!!
Taking action is the solution and I'm grateful for the people that do speak up!
Maybe we will finally take some real action, once the awareness is raised.
But we should be careful to not ruin a good point or piece by being overly emotional.
Thank you too for speaking up!!!
Alright An, let's meet here in a year. I hear you. Hell, this excellent fulminator himself might have enthusiast's remorse by now, a full day later. Still, his name is Frank, so we should expect a certain candor.
As a former streetfighter turned all I Am meditator and give peace a chance and such, I def hear you. I def hear you.
Same here!!! You've got it!!
... I have a sneaky suspicion that we will cross paths on substack before that!! :)
Bravo you clever bitch. I loved it. I abhor what that man does. This was exquisite. Read it twice. Just cleansed my erection with a stuffed animal and now I'm ready for bed.
One of the first thing I did was block him. I did not go to Medium to read his crap.