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If any of the above, what was the story line?
That was your movie, play, or book?Ummm...I am a student at a small midwestern university.....
Publishing is tough, fickle, painfully slow and always chasing trends... and sadly good reviews are no guarantee that you'll get another book published. Stay inspired and keep at it.Tomorrow is the 6th anniversary of my novel, not self published. Still on Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. Used the pen name Avi Morris, mostly to honor my grandfathers whom I never knew and, because it’s based on the true story of a pair of my foster daughters, I wanted to keep anonymity, changing locales etc. you know it’s fiction because I made the foster father, kind of me, a Red Sox fan. I’m a Yankee through and through. a decent number of sales and very good reviews for an unknown stiff and still gets an occasional sale. I hate the audio version over which I had no control. It’s a pretty honest portrayal of foster care, abuse, but with an
uplifting conclusion.
I’ve written a few others that got to first and even second base with agents or publishers: but years ago when I had a day job and too busy to pursue further. . All of mine are very different from the others (I have no genre) that I toyed with resurrecting. One is a political parody that actually was pretty predictive of the degree to which politicians and the cable media have incestuous relationships. The problem with resurrecting is that I thought I had created an hard to imagine US President. I fell short.
Congrats to you and tell me about the difficulty. My publisher is on demand. So getting it into bookstores and libraries was tough. Marketing is a pain and I decided using vehicles like Twitter is mostly useless. Bookstores on consignment.Publishing is tough, fickle, painfully slow and always chasing trends... and sadly good reviews are no guarantee that you'll get another book published. Stay inspired and keep at it.
I'm envious of those who can write well, and can tell a story, whether fiction or non-fiction. There are many of you on the boneyard.
I am the worst writer I know who makes money writing.
I have three sons. All really good writers. And have to write for work The two eldest read a lot as kids. I think it helps writing One is a college prof and a natural creative writer but now does scientific papers. The second is a corporate lawyer and also a natural creative writer but now writes exclusively lawyer stuff. My youngest hardly read and is a natural creative writer and is a producer, director, writer of TV shows. My wife and I could never understand where his writing came from because he read so little. I could always write, but not exactly for a living. My day job was as a Fed lawyer. It required a fair bit of writing, but I would say it was maybe a quarter of my time tops. I could never believe how some of the material I read from people who graduated law school could be so poorly written.I'm envious of those who can write well, and can tell a story, whether fiction or non-fiction. There are many of you on the boneyard.
I am the worst writer I know who makes money writing.
"always in cynic"I have three sons. All really good writers. And have to write for work The two eldest read a lot as kids. I think it helps writing One is a college prof and a natural creative writer but now does scientific papers. The second is a corporate lawyer and also a natural creative writer but now writes exclusively lawyer stuff. My youngest hardly read and is a natural creative writer and is a producer, director, writer of TV shows. My wife and I could never understand where his writing came from because he read so little. I could always write, but not exactly for a living. My day job was as a Fed lawyer. It required a fair bit of writing, but I would say it was maybe a quarter of my time tops. I could never believe how some of the material I read from people who graduated law school could be so poorly written.
For novel writing, I believe, at least for me, the first books have to be written. They are stories you want to tell. I think for some of the very popular writers, say Grisham for example, who go under contract to produce, the later novels are often not as good, staff involved, that sort of thing. I should be so unfortunate.
The other thing is, especially for self publishers, get a professional edit. I’ve read a few novels where the editing of some otherwise interesting books was so bad that it detracted and even led to bad reader reviews. I had to proofread my legal staff and thought I was pretty sharp. I had my wife, who taught writing, edit my novel . I had people I knew edit for mistakes and content, and still my publisher’s editor found a bunch of missed things, especially some missing words (I do that all the time even on the BY, the mind and hand are not always in cynic) and grammar and punctuation. I used spell check, never autocorrect or grammar check. Would constantly trying to change dialogue. People and fictional characters don’t worry about grammar in conversation.
I might be getting the bug to finish my quarter written novel. I think this post is novella length.
I wrote two technical books on feeding balanced fresh food diets to dogs. My second book, Unlocking the Canine Ancestral Diet, is used at several veterinary schools in Europe and Asia.
Just found out my dog has EDS. Any diet recommendations?
Yeah, right, wd don't believe you. Pictures or it didn't happen.
I doubt it."always in cynic"
Dog owners aren't looking for a thesis.I'm envious of those who can write well, and can tell a story, whether fiction or non-fiction. There are many of you on the boneyard.
I am the worst writer I know who makes money writing.
Meant to add. I said I need an editor. You’re hired."always in cynic"
Always in need of editing!Meant to add. I said I need an editor. You’re hired.