Completely revised older story

Here’s something I’ve contemplated saying for a while. And it has nothing to do with your writing. Well, nothing to do with your writing skill. But a lot about your chosen content’s era.

For your next experimental rewrite, how about making a story timeless. Remove any/all: 70s; 80s; NYC; hippie; specifically named point in time references. (Also have it happen without mentioning the internet or cell phones too.) That way, if a reader wanted to interpret as happening in the sixties and seventies, they could. If I wanted to interpret it in the nineties I could. If a Tik-tokker wanted to imagine it all happening within a five second clip (and of course ending with someone tripping and falling, but that’s so obvious!) they could.

I see you laboring without the attention and readership you deserve for such a talent level, because of a library of stories frozen in a time that appeals to just one very specific and nostalgic demographic.

Sure, write what you want and keep writing that. But wouldn’t it be interesting to see how a story of yours would do (readership volume I mean) without people skipping or back-keying out of it due to the title, the tag line, or knowing it’s a seventies New York hippie story before even scrolling past the first screen worth of writing?

Do it at least once. I know I’ll read it
 
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