Building The Myth Dimension: A Social Media for Authors

Five years ago, I sat in a Subway typing out a short story on my 30-minute break. I wiped the bleariness of a 50-hour work week from my eyes, reminding myself that some day I’d be a published author. I knew that my only problem was volume: if I could get enough people to see my work, and I was so good they couldn’t ignore me, something would happen - right?

It was an uphill struggle.

I created a blog called storiesfromthemythdimension - inspired by the concept from a book I had picked up on a whim from the thrift store - and shared it with my friends. To my surprise, they made accounts and began to post their own works as well.

Within a month, the site had grown to around 20 users with no marketing at all. I felt the spark ignite inside of myself: what if this was the answer?

The Problem Nobody Talks About

Authors are drowning in platforms that weren't designed for them. Twitter and it’s pitch wars died with Elon Musk’s takeover. Instagram, where book covers get lost in a sea of brainrot and vacation shots. TikTok, where you have thirty seconds to explain a 300-page novel. And don't get me started on trying to build a meaningful readership when the algorithm thinks your fantasy novel about dragons should be competing with Twitch streamer clips.

It's exhausting.

I watched my friend—a brilliant writer whose work deserves to be read—burn out not from writing, but from trying to navigate social media platforms that treated her art like any other content. Her novel wasn't a product to be optimized; it was a world she'd spent years building, characters she'd grown to love, themes that mattered to her.

But the internet didn't care about any of that.

So she quit.

Enter The Myth Dimension

The Myth Dimension started as a solution to a problem I saw everywhere in the writing community. What if authors had a platform designed specifically for the way they work and think? What if we could create a space where the creative process itself was the content?

The core idea was simple: integrate directly with Google Docs so that every time an author writes, they can automatically share updates with their followers. Not just "I wrote 500 words today" (though that's valid too), but meaningful progress updates that let readers journey alongside the creation of a story.

Imagine following your favorite author and getting notifications like: "Just finished Chapter 12—Miranda finally confronts her past" or "Spent today worldbuilding the magic system for the coastal kingdoms." Suddenly, readers aren't just consumers; they're witnesses to the creative process.

As it turns out, this concept resonated with a lot more people than I expected.

The Technical Rabbit Hole

Building a social media platform when you're primarily a writer and not a coder is exactly as chaotic as it sounds. I had to learn about schema databases, ethical AI usage (if there is any such thing), and APIs for the first time.

Don't worry, I'm not going to bore you with the technical details. But what I will say is that diving into the world of no-code creators and AI programming completely shifted how I think about building things. When you're learning to see the world through a developer's lens, everything becomes about systems and connections and making things talk to each other that were never meant to be in the same room.

The most interesting challenge wasn't the coding itself—it was figuring out how to make technology serve creativity rather than the other way around. How do you build features that enhance the writing process without disrupting it? How do you create social interactions that feel meaningful rather than performative?

Those questions kept me up at night, in the best possible way.

The Bigger Picture

What keeps me going through all the technical headaches and funding mysteries is the vision of what The Myth Dimension could become. We're not just building another social media platform—we're creating infrastructure for literary community.

Think about it: right now, readers discover books through algorithms that prioritize engagement over quality. Authors build audiences by performing productivity rather than sharing genuine creative insights. The whole system is optimized for metrics that have nothing to do with good storytelling.

But what if we could change that? What if readers could follow the development of stories they're genuinely excited about? What if authors could build relationships with their audience based on the work itself rather than their social media savvy?

We're essentially trying to turn authors from commodities into collectibles that publishers and readers genuinely want to invest in. I want the authors and their books to be genuinely interesting again, instead of being judged by their sales projections.

Lessons from the Trenches

Building The Myth Dimension has taught me things I never expected to learn. Like how venture capital actually works. Or how difficult it is to explain to people why authors need their own platform when it feels like ‘just another social media’ on their laundry list.

The biggest revelation? Most people in tech don't actually understand how writers work. They think writing is just typing words into a document, when really it's this complex dance of research, worldbuilding, character development, and conflicts. Our platform needs to honor that complexity while making it accessible to readers who want to be part of the journey.

I've also learned that having a clear vision isn't enough—you need to be able to articulate that vision in fifteen different ways depending on who you're talking to. Explaining The Myth Dimension to a literary agent is completely different from explaining it to a venture capitalist, which is different from explaining it to an author who just wants to connect with readers.

What's Next

Right now, my team and I are coding like my startup depends on it (because it does). We're looking at either a ConcernedApe-style solo development approach or building toward a crowdfunding campaign for Summer 2025. Either way, The Myth Dimension is happening.

The longer timeline actually gives us something valuable: the chance to get it right. I'd rather launch a platform that genuinely serves the writing community than rush something to market that misses the point entirely.

In the meantime, I'm hosting a 30,000 words in 30 days challenge for June—partly because the NaNoWriMo situation left a lot of writers without their annual motivation boost, and partly because I want to keep building community while we finish building the platform.

The Real Why

To be honest with you, there are easier ways to make money than building a social media platform for a notoriously difficult-to-monetize creative community. But every time I think about giving up, I remember being that writer in the coffee shop, switching between seventeen tabs, just trying to share my story with people who might love it.

The internet broke something fundamental about how we connect over stories. The Myth Dimension is my attempt to fix it, one story at a time.

Whether we succeed or not, I know we're building something that matters. And in a world full of platforms designed to extract attention and sell ads, maybe that's revolutionary enough.

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