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Subj: I'm either really stubborn or really stupid. Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 at 12:05:16 pm EDT (Viewed 830 times) | Reply Subj: Glad to hear it. Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 at 07:46:21 pm EDT (Viewed 3 times) | ||||||
Quote: So here's what I think you need to do. Get a stand-alone Sean and Keiko story of 60,000 words ready for publication. Take your time. Make it your best shot ever. I actually had one that was halfway there. I guess if I rewrite it, it will only take me twice as long. Quote: When it's ready, let me know so I can send you a couple of contact addresses for you to pitch your work for either print or e-publication. Or take another pass at self-publishing using Createspace and Kindle; the process has come a long way in the last couple of years.Self-publishing is a nice idea, except without money for promotion it's kind of a waste of time. Unless people already know to look for it, then it's promoting itself. Quote: If your book gets picked up by some small-press publisher you won't likely get rich but you will get some profile for the next time. Also note there's often a lag time of 9-18 months from acceptance to print.I kind of figured there would be a lag. There's always bureaucracy to get through in publishing companies. Quote: So seriously, gear up, bring your pro-game, and have a go.It's going to be a slightly delayed gearing up, though, because I have paying and potentially paying game development work in the queue at the moment. I can work slowly on writing during idle points, but it won't be full time just yet. My biggest enemy with writing anything that long is the more I go back and read earlier stuff the more glaring problems bother me. Right now I solve that by never going back. But if it's a full publication, I'm going to have to, so I'm going to need to learn to draw a line where I can say this is good enough, and leave it alone before I make things worse. Another enemy I have to fight is that I hate filler. It's really difficult to write 60,000 words without at least one section where nothing is really happening, but it'll probably be necessary. This is actually the number one thing that causes my writing to come to a halt completely for a while - I realize the entire section I'm writing is filler, and I toss it out. I probably throw out 1/4 of what I write and no one sees it because of that. | |||||||
