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Reply Subj: Can't you be both? Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 at 08:01:18 pm EDT (Viewed 1 times) | |||||||
Quote: Some authors I know have a nice sideline in taking copies of their books to such places - especially the ones where they can double as a guest and get a free table. Shifting say 100 books with a profit of $3.50 a unit over a weekend isn't too shabby.I never really checked to see if any of those kinds of conventions are around here. I've only noticed trade fairs and Megacon which is comics and anime themed. Quote: There's an art to longer-form stories. The techiniques vary from writer to writer. I generally power all the way through to the end then crawl over it again at least a couple of times, with a few weeks break in between.The longer I wait to go back, the more I think the older stuff is crap.  That's what I have to get over, the temptation to keep rewriting stuff forever.Quote: Avoid filler at all costs.Well...what I call filler and what most people do is slightly different. This is where I'm really tough on myself. For instance, occasionally there was a chapter of World Class or a PVB story where there is "down time" and it's mostly just setup and people getting from one place to the other. I call that filler! I don't like it much, but in order to make a 60,000 word book continuous it's going to have to come into play at some point. Quote: If a 60,000 word story seems too much for the story you're telling, look to four 15,000 word stories that link together. For World Class, story 1 is Keiko and Sean meeting and their first case together. Story 2 has some link to Keiko's past. Story 3 gives some emphasis on Sean's circumstances. Story 4 features the fight against the bad guy who's been behind it all from the start. Or similar. That was the book has sections, each of which is a novella in its own right, all of which lock together into a complete narrative.I went and looked back, and I already have about 20,000 words written even though I didn't post it. I feel like most of it needs re-writing, but considering it really didn't take very long to write in the first place, it shouldn't take long to re-write since I have the basic plot already. What I don't have yet is an end point, so I need one of those. | |||||||
