Everyone will be published for 2 books
The long tail is getting longer. Everyone will be published for 2 books. Fewer readers every month; more writers every month. See the trend?
I have no clue what to do about this trend, or if I should even try to do anything about it. Something may come along to make this trend irrelevant.
I'm the blunt guy in the group who blurts out the awful truth, and often gets kicked out of the group. Selling myself is a skill I have been working on for 20 years, obviously without any success whatsoever.
I suspect that the majority of eBook writers never sell enough copies to mention in conversation, much less to deposit income in the bank.
Historically, my standard response, after writing a novel, and failing to find a home for it with a publisher, was to give up and just write another novel.
Am I wasting time, trying to promote my work? Should I just say the hell with this, and start up another novel?
On the plus side, I'm always at my happiest when I am writing a first draft…
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Malcolm
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Jul 27, 2013 12:46PM
Too many people expect to write a novel, have their mom or a friend read it, then slap it up on createspace or smashwords and become the next Stephen King. That's not going to happen. The vast majority of what is on createspace and smashwords is junk because those "authors" don't take the time to learn dramatic craft and they are not critical enough of their work to revise and edit it properly. Read and re-read THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE ten times, and study the art of dramatic writing (i.e.: the 3-act structure).
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Concur, Malcolm.And if I may take it a step further:
Read & study 100 or 1000 awesome novels,
Write 1 or 10 novels of your own.
Each novel I write is an educational experience.
And a PostScript (or would that be PostComment?):
The best way I know to improve a novel I have already written is to cut 15-25% of the text.
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