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Writing a novel-length story on the side.
12 years ago
I've been doing so for the past couple of months, my goal is to have it finished by at least October. It will be set in the "Spoils and Seasons" and "Proving" universe I've dabbled in but never really explored or fleshed out the way I've wanted to, hopefully this will correct that. I'm doing this because I want to see if I can do a complete long story rather than my current situation of adding one written chapter at a time.
I've done complete short stories, flash fiction but never a big story all at once. Sometimes under my current methods I'm able to finish these stories, but many times I lose interest or my place in them and they go forever unfinished. My goal with this is hopefully a shift in writing style to producing better quality stories that will be finished and give me an idea how to break into getting published as a serious author.
If it goes well, I might even start putting out ebooks, since I've been interested in that form of self-publishing for some time and every author I've talked to IRL has mentioned that the traditional publishing industry is circling the drain (ever notice how you local bookstore started selling things besides books and coffee? Mine has toys and video games now!)
Basically, it's what's happened to the music industry a few years ago when everyone went digital. Replace Ipod with Kindle/Nook.
Upstaged will continue and one of the conditions I've set for myself is to finish it first, but I felt I needed to explain what I've been up to as this is the second week without an update.
So far I'm up to 25,000 words. Once I finish, I'll release it one chapter at a time every week to compare it to my current style. I'd release it all at once, but I figure this will give everyone an easier time reading it and will give me time to work on other projects without worrying about not putting anything up.
One final detail...the story will be adult themed with multiple sex scenes....but I'm not writing a straight up porn fic.
I've done complete short stories, flash fiction but never a big story all at once. Sometimes under my current methods I'm able to finish these stories, but many times I lose interest or my place in them and they go forever unfinished. My goal with this is hopefully a shift in writing style to producing better quality stories that will be finished and give me an idea how to break into getting published as a serious author.
If it goes well, I might even start putting out ebooks, since I've been interested in that form of self-publishing for some time and every author I've talked to IRL has mentioned that the traditional publishing industry is circling the drain (ever notice how you local bookstore started selling things besides books and coffee? Mine has toys and video games now!)
Basically, it's what's happened to the music industry a few years ago when everyone went digital. Replace Ipod with Kindle/Nook.
Upstaged will continue and one of the conditions I've set for myself is to finish it first, but I felt I needed to explain what I've been up to as this is the second week without an update.
So far I'm up to 25,000 words. Once I finish, I'll release it one chapter at a time every week to compare it to my current style. I'd release it all at once, but I figure this will give everyone an easier time reading it and will give me time to work on other projects without worrying about not putting anything up.
One final detail...the story will be adult themed with multiple sex scenes....but I'm not writing a straight up porn fic.
You know, for the longest time, I figured you were already a published author that just wrote macro fiction under a pen name.
Gotta say though, not a lot of macro writers aim for something that ambitious in length, or at least not in one go. Very much looking forward to it.
And you should totally give it a shot yourself some day.
PM me if you want to talk more about it.