/lit/ - Literature

>>20222764
>You guys know this feeling, right?
I posted in one of the deleted Gardner shill /wg/s yesterday about how I just released three novels. My finances have improved and I was able to boost my ads so I won't post the link here again. When I posted yesterday a few people were impressed that I got three novels finished. Thanks a lot, guys!

I worked on my first one (Panther Pride) for about four years, and then my second one (The Savage Green) for about eighteen months. I quit my job to write full time and got my third one (Modem Waves) done in about six months. Along the way, I lost sight of what an accomplishment it is to even finish one novel, with covers and advertisements and everything. There's a shitload of work that goes into getting something ready for KDP, not to mention making your own website. In the last three months, I've probably read each of these novels at least six times, in three different formats, each time finding new mistakes. For those of you who are still working on your first project: do not despair. It is a massive effort just to ensure that 60,000+ words of fiction is grammatically competent and structurally consistent. Self-publishing is looked down upon but if you have even an ounce of integrity and you really want to ensure that your work meets an acceptable standard of quality, then producing something which does not embarrass you to look at is going to be a strenuous process. And if you manage to finish it, you should absolutely be proud of yourself.

Whew. Glad to be done with all that. Now I can just sit back and kick it with my /wg/ bros. I've got three more novel-length manuscripts half-finished but I'm gonna be taking a break and just enjoying some quality literature for now. The worst part about writing full time is that your "reading eye" gets tired and it's nigh impossible to truly lose yourself in a book. I might get that Son of the Sun book I'm always seeing advertised late at night.

VIVA LA /WG/!
VIVA LA /LIT/!