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How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on?

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>> No.16253074
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I'm almost done. I'll never be published but I think I'll let my therapist and a few friends read it. At the very least, I'm proud of myself for finishing it.

>> No.16253093

Second novel is on hold because I decided to do a book of spoken word instead. Been having a lot of fun with it and the words have been flowing a lot easier. Still early going tho.

>>16253074
Good work anon. Ever consider investing $500-1k into getting a cover, half-decent editing job, and formatting to get it up on Amazon? That's what I did.

>> No.16253099

I'm almost ready to write the first sentence. Any day now

>> No.16253117

Close as fuck to my 90k word 1st draft.

>> No.16253133

>>16253093
I've thought about it, but I've felt like self publishing on Amazon is like spitting in the ocean. There's no way to stand out and I know nothing about marketing.

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>>16253074
>254,383 Characters
holy shit man, how do you expect readers to remember all their names?

>> No.16253147

>>16253133
Oh, for sure. I've sold absolutely nothing (a dozen or two copies) but it feels good to own a physical copy of a book you wrote and it looks good on job applications.

The fiverr marketing meme didn't work for me :(

>> No.16253175

>>16253140
kek

>> No.16253180

>>16253054
I've hired a ghost writer to work on my novel for me. The only problem is that his hands just go right through the keyboard

>> No.16253254

>>16253140
He'll market to Redditors saying its similar to the Silmarillion

>> No.16253279

>>16253180
i hope you die

>> No.16253321

>>16253147
How much did you sell your book for? I was thinking three dollars since there's no guarantee of quality

>> No.16253332

>>16253321
Started at 7, dropped down to 3. Sales did not improve.

>> No.16253337

>>16253279
I did. Now I’m a ghost writer.

>> No.16253352

>>16253337
Stephen King's novels will take on an entirely new element of horror when he finally kicks the bucket

>> No.16253378

>>16253337
Your predestined eternity is all thanks to the fact that you didn't write your book while alive.

>> No.16253390

>>16253337
https://youtu.be/8KnBAcy3clk

>> No.16253413

>>16253054
I've finally figured out the overall plot trajectory. Now I've separated it into about twenty 2500 word 'chapters' and I'm working through one at a time, aiming for one a day three days a week. 2500 words takes me about 2 hours. So far I'm on target after one one week, so that's about 8000 words.

>> No.16253417

Where's the writing general anon? Thread died two days ago and now there's nowhere to talk about writing with likeminded anons