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change my name posted:I'm going to stop making GBS threads this thread up and actually finish editing, but I think this is what I'm going to go with (maybe with some minor tweaks): Maybe I'm not that bright but I didn't see the pentagram until somebody else pointed it out. So to me it was just, like... a picture of a city with some birds. Make the pentagram much more obvious and it would be a cool cover IMO.
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angel opportunity posted:I'm never going to write this poo poo, so I'm not going to analyze this too far, but the point of this step is that you want to find examples of people who tried to cash in on this market and archetype, but failed. The question is: if you emulate this as best you can and do everything right, how reasonable is it to expect you'll be successful? As far as I can see, the absolute worst case in this genre if you do everything close to right is "You will make several thousand more dollars than fedora Cthulhu slayer." The best case is: "You will make over $10,000+ for each book that should ideally take you only 1-2 months to write." Thanks for the effortpost. It is all really useful information. I was wondering if you could expand on the bolded part a little bit? How do you get up to that kind of pace? I have written a bunch of novels over the years but I've never really taken less than a year to finish one. I'm sure I could do better but still 1 month sounds incredibly fast. Is it just that you cut a lot of corners for the ebook market since nobody expects great prose anyway?
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EngineerSean posted:What took you a year? Outlining? Your first draft? The three months you took off because work had you beat? This is a job for most of us. A mere 250 words a day for 250 days a year gets you more than enough for a novel, and that represents about thirty minutes of work for me. You're never gonna piss off your peers faster in this business than by implying your work is better simply because it took you longer. Sorry, I definitely didn't mean to imply anything like that. I'd assume that anyone who makes money off writing is a better writer than me. That's why I'm asking for advice. angel opportunity posted:I work 5 days a week and on a work day I write 5,000 words. I miss days sometimes but in general I'm writing close to 25,000 words per week. When I still had a day job and was doing this after work I tried to do 3,000 words after work five days per week, and sometimes I'd sacrifice weekend time to write more. Thanks. This is very useful although also daunting.
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Dream Weaver posted:I'll post my marketing plan here but first.. getting a po box to establish my self pub business. Oh boy it's work. I really like seeing people's marketing plans. A bit of hopefully constructive feedback. Your novel is mil sci-fi, Cradle is an anime kung fu novel. Are you sure that the audience for one is going to overlap significantly with the other?
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CaptainCrunch posted:Well this thread, and the writing one, have been an enormous help over the last ten months as I pulled myself out of a years-long funk. Got the first draft of my book done in Sept. and have been compiling my disparate notes for the second since then. Planning on NaNoWriMoing as much of that first draft as I can in Nov. Then back to book 1 etc. I don't think I'd be at this stage without these two threads. This seems quite good to me, it's simple, direct and has a strong hook. One thing that tripped me up slightly is the question of: how can a vampire have never met any other vampires? Traditionally, you'd have to get bit by a vampire to become a vampire. If you answered this question or pointed towards it, that might give us more about what makes Eddy, and the story, unique. To up the stakes a bit more, you could clarify why "muscling in on his turf" is causing problems for Eddy. If he just hangs out and parties all the time, why can't he and the other vampire coexist?
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oliveoil posted:Which part of writing do you all find takes the most of your time? Thinking of a plot and characters is what I find most time consuming but I wonder if that's just a newbie problem and others tend to spend most of their time on other things after they get more experience writing and publishing. Thinking of plot events and characters comes pretty easily to me. If you want to speed it up, I recommend keeping a notes app on your phone (or a physical notebook if you're old school) that is dedicated solely to creative ideas, and write down every idea you have no matter how stupid or irrelevant it seems (for example, I rarely if ever write literary fiction but I still jot down ideas "wouldn't it be cool if there was a lit fic story about X"). Much like with keeping a dream journal, the more you write down the more your brain will provide. Or at least that's how it works for me. Note that this is a good technique for generating ideas that you're enthusiastic about. Turning those raw ideas into a solid plan for a novel is a different process and still takes me a lot of time.
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cpmaoa1990 posted:Books! Not sure what's going on here but I would like to read this book, not for $49.99 though.
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SimonChris posted:What's the best way to build a mailing list? Are there specific tools that people use, or do I just get people to send me their email addresses? Substack is an easy and free way to handle a mailing list. When I started my newsletter (which is more like a review blog than an author updates newsletter) I tried Buttondown and then moved to Ghost. The former is very barebones and minimalist. If you just want to push out updates on book launches, sales, etc then it's a good choice. Ghost is better if you want your posts to be evergreen. Both these cost a monthly subscription fee. I chose them over Substack for moral reasons--at the time it seemed like Substack was leaning hard into the transphobia market. I don't really have strong feelings about that aspect any more, though. I still think Substack is kind of evil but probably not more so than any other huge internet platform.
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