I continuously stumble into blogs where aspiring authors are lamenting the cruel nature of the publishing industry and how their efforts are unrecognized. If the aspiring author could only get the attention of X or if Y would simply read the first couple chapters of their manuscript – then they’d of course understand the author’s […]
A lot of people wonder how long it takes to write a novel that is 80,000 words or more.
Successful authors who sell many books are business people. If you aren’t, you should be thinking like one.
When someone first sits down to write something your first instinct in an email might not be to plan out what you are writing. Let’s face it, a novel is not an email. I find it difficult to understand how someone can put “pen to paper” without a blueprint or idea of what they are […]
We now understand the basic complaints our beta readers had. Let’s take those items and use them to improve our manuscript.
I did share (in a secure manner) my manuscript with a good variety of people and learned a series of useful tidbits. It did require separating a lot of wheat from chaff in that feedback.
Nothing annoys me more than people who profess knowledge in something when in fact they are clueless. Be that as it may, this seems to be prevalent in writing. How many people, who are otherwise unpublished or have no writing credentials whatsoever, wax professorial when giving advice to other would-be authors.
Ok, so I wrote something, and I carved it into the rough form that fits the norms for my genre. Time to have people give feedback.
When I decided to write my first non-technical (I.e. YA Fantasy) book, I didn’t have any idea what to expect of myself.
