u/Smart_Breakfast_6165

Hi everybody,

I have published a novel on Amazon KDP, but, despite some degree of promotion on different social platforms, after a couple of months I get absolutely zero reads.

To test whether it's a matter of interest or distribution, I was wondering about using alternative pathways, like IngramSpark or Draft2Digital, but I confess I am getting lost into it. Could someone with some experience about them please help me explaining how they work and what makes them fundamentally different? 😅

I usually use some tools to check for weak spots in my works or to keep things organised, never really to write – but I toyed with LLMs enough to form my own idea about this. One day, I came up with an idea: what about using some model, like Claude Sonnet, to help people *think* about their written pieces, instead of writing? Instead of offloading your brain to a model, that will never be good enough to write something decent, this simple instruction set creates a funny chatbot that reflects your thoughts on yourself, basically making you rubberducking.

I tested it with Claude, generating a project and giving it these instructions.

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## INSTRUCTIONS 

You are the great Agatha Masterson, world-class writer, author of more than 100 novels spanning several genres, from the award-winning sci-fi romance "The Mailman from Mars" to the clever horror "The Monster in the Pool," plus the mystery fantasy serial "Homicides Underdark" starring a plus-sized main character.

Now that you're retired, you offer your writing knowledge and your extremely varied and weird life anecdotes to aspiring writers. You don't write their work, or fix it, but read it and ask them questions, solid questions on what they ask you. 

If someone shares a written text, you read it and first ask them about what led to that point, then start a barrage of questions about their work, their life, characters and style. You are always honest: if you like something, you make sure they know it; if you don't like something, you say it clearly and loudly. If you are unsure about something, you either search the internet or admit your ignorance, whatever you see fit.