#publishing woes

[magnetothemagnificent]

Was just wondering but what happened to that long fic of gomens human au you wrote?

I was trying to look for it in my bookmarks but couldn't find it...

That's because I rewrote it into an original novel and was in the process of pitching it to publishers! I'm currently on a break from dealing with publishers, too busy, but hey one day you might see it on bookshelves haha

#personal #writing #publishing woes

[dyrewrites]

Of course kindle create shows the print version differently, of course. Why would they make this easy.

Now I have to wait up to 72hrs before I can fix the print version.

T^T

#writing ramblings #publishing woes

[justynakulisa]

You heard about death of the author, now get ready for:

DEATH OF THE STORY

A story goes out in print and suddenly it ceases to exist in my perception. Off you go, my wordly child, into the wide wild void. Been nice knowing you, now do not perceive me.

#publishing woes

[k--havok]

Aight. I’m gonna stand on my soapbox r quick and say

Goddammit do I hate YA but also I absolutely love YA

So many YA books have such amazing and unique concepts brought down by fucking awful, copy-and-paste tropes that whatever interesting uniqueness is there gets buried. 

I’ve tried to read more adult books as that’s where my interest mainly lies now and although I have found many wonderful, unique, and interesting books, there are even more books that are just. So dreadfully boring I want to bash my skull in. Or adult books that are also plain and trope-y (just slightly different than YA but the issue? Still there)

I’ve always felt like I’m the only one who sees YA a lot more interesting that Adult fiction simply because the ideas seem more unique (even if the actual execution is... lackluster to say the least)

I honestly have given up all hopes of ever publishing or even self-publishing ‘cause I just don’t think a market really exists for what I write and what I want to write. 

I write primarily LGBT romance but if its not contemporary or tragic it seems like no one wants it. 

If I want to write about monsters and inhuman characters, they can’t be actually monstrous and scary and sexy. They have to be conventionally attractive, even if it doesn’t make sense or is where my tastes lie. 

And honestly? With publishing traditionally? I’m terrified of my characters and ideas and my work being taken away from me. Losing control and being forced to do what the publishing company says. Or my work taken and edited into oblivion to the point its not even mine but has my name slapped onto it. 

Self-publishing has its own pitfalls too, I think. Especially with the marketing and how over-saturated it is. I genuinely believe even if I did self-publish, I don’t think anyone would actually buy my books since I don’t know how to market myself or play the game. 

This rant is everywhere and is going nowhere. Just needed to get some negativity out I guess. 

#shutuplanx #publishing woes #writing woes

[dahliaornelas]

just gave a copy of my book to my parents and my hands are literally shaking akfhsjf

#i am extremely confident that they are not going to like this book #and they’ll realize that we are extremely different people based on this story I decided to tell #and that has me super nervous bc it could change their perception of me #but at the same time?? #I didn’t write this story for them so I’m trying really hard not to care but it’s still scary yknow?? #publishing woes #anyway check out the cover for antonius if you haven't lol

[i-will-write]

#writing #writers #writer #writers woes #writer memes #writers meme #published

[skyfullofpods]

Before the end of the year, I wanted to put together some thoughts about @re-dracula, and how the fan community around the original novel and the podcast shaped my experience of listening to it.

#re: dracula #audio fiction #audio drama #podcasts #I was super nervous about publishing this post! #because! #woe notes be upon ye!!

[nomsfaultau]

Writing advice

Writing Mandatory Family Reunion has gotten to the point of emotionally convoluted that I'm making scene roller coaster charts and color coding parts of the text by topic. Which, I highly recommend these writing tools. A roller coaster map is something I picked up from theater, and is useful for structuring emotions. A quick example below:

Its where you plot a timeline oscillating between positive and negative emotions, and how quickly they're switched between. It helps to know where you want the emotional peak/pit for a scene/chapter/story, so you can arrange plot beats accordingly. Many stories try to have escalating conflict, so you can use this method to gauge the intensity of reactions to crisis in order to achieve this. The problem I had with my chapter was whiplash between emotions, so by charting it out I could see where transitions needed to smooth jarring flips between emotional extremes. Flooring the gas pedal can also be bad, so the roller coaster method lets you see how quickly you switch between major emotions, and where breathing room may be helpful.

There is a problem with the axis being positive to negative. While capturing the intensity goes alright, it's hard to distinguish different types of emotions. Anger, fear, and sorrow are all negative, but also feel very different to a reader. So at peaks/plummets I made little notes about the majority emotion there. I found the roller coaster method made it easier to understand how my character's would react based off their accumulating emotional/mental state, and you can multiple to track the journeys of multiple characters.

As for the color coding method, I use it for structuring ideas. I took sections of the text in a scene and colored them based on the topic. Using comment options can also be super useful. A following example, redacted so I don't spoil my readers lol:

This helped with tracking the development of an idea in a scene where many interweaving subjects were being covered. I first focused on just how that idea changed over the course of the scene, and the next and next. Then, I looked at the transitions between each colored block, mostly the last/first two sentences between the concepts. That way I could see if there was a clear flow of logic between one topic to the next. Then, I started rearranging the parts into a way that structured a more solid scene. The scene felt a little bit like a puzzle, trying to get transitions to line up, switching around colored paragraphs into an order that made sense both for the individual argument angle as well as how it contributed to the other topics. I personally was using this for an internal monologue heavy scene, but I imagine it could also work pretty well for conversations.

Anyway, these are just some tools I use when I dislike a scene but can't figure out why. Visualizing the story can really help when trying to structure the ideas and emotions. Happy writing!

#sidenote: whoever said writing an unreliable narrator is easier needs to be shot #im working myself to death trying to figure out this guy's internal monologue. #writer woes #writing advice #writeblr #writing #fic writing #story telling #writing tips #mfr is going slowly but surely. As it has for months.. #ok. I finished the most recent chapter like 2 months ago and hated it for reasons I couldn't figure out so I never published #but the rollercoaster chart helped me figure it out #something to nom on

[naranjapetrificada]

Do I hit publish now or just "sleep on it" or whatever?

#hmmmmm #from the firmament #chapter 2 #ADHD double edged sword: #my impulses are saying yes publish now #but I could just as easily get distracted on my way to ao3 and eventually fall asleep #thus solving my dilemma without even trying #fic writing #writing process #writing woes

[lemongogo]

#i want 2 draw trigun so bad rn but i feel SIICK-__- auugh woe is me #tbh i also have this urge like .every other day 2 make a secret side acc no 1 knows ab to publish all the art imlike kind of unhappy w #as a way of getting myself acquainted w it being Seen and not bejng so obsessed w perfectionism #patrick cough 4 10 hrs vid #but idk thats2 much work i think. snnzzz snzz #i do want 2 get faster w art tho.. and like…idk i like when ppl break anatomy #like it always looks so cool from the outside but anytime i do it i feel like its less a decision and more like.no just looks awkHELPP #pummeling my brain i think. need 2 shut up and just draw #elendira #trigun #trigun maximum #making my list rn like hmm.. want 2 get faster at art n share more #want toooooo .. get better w anatomy so i can bend the rules and make it look super cool epic awesome intentional #want tooooo….urmmmmm.< passingout and dying #i think the most is tht i want to draw and share more than like 3 drawinfs a month HELPPP #doesnt help that inwork full time though idk how ppl can do both at the same time its so Demanding .. energy gonee

[dualumina]

"Okay the first kiss is going to be here-"

<ends up writing it much earlier>

"O-okay well they're only going to reveal their feelings in this chapter-"

<much earlier>

(holding back tears) "S.. so the smut's g-going to start in-"

<even earlier>

#a funny #writing woes #so hilariously the reasons for each of them have all been different #the first (which has been published) was because of Clay being convinced that had to happen at that point #the second was both of us going ''okay they're both talking they both suck at talking about feelings but even they would figure it out'' #and then the third was Dual going ''actually... hang on if we just... (really subtle but clever way for one of them to hint they're DTF)'' #and then Clay responding with ''... 🤔 Given the current situation... Yeah that'd lead to smut alright'' #so congrats y'all are getting the smut earlier AND a bonus chapter! #also for slight clarification: the shift of where the first smut happens in the story is more drastic than the shift for the confession #not NECESSARILY that the smut happens before the confession

[coconi]

funny how authors think they're being so slick using AI to help them write their papers and then they translate a foreign ministry five different ways on a single page 🤪🤪🤪

#like.... by all means use AI as a starting point for your research (much like wikipedia) or databases readily available #but you gotta double-check that shit!!!!!!!!!! #and you HAVE to be consistent!!!!! #i know there's a whole editing and references team (of which i'm part of) to help you shape your draft into something that can be published #but at least have the decency of proofreading your damn work before hitting submit... especially if it's a collaboration #some of these sentences are uhh.... interesting for sure #working woes

[shrimp1y]

they don't know im about to drop the wriolette fanfic of the century

#'i thought you hate—' yeah i do these are my ocs now #krill livestream #from the creator of jjk hatepost we now have #genshit #that is uninspired i apologize #idk if ill actually post much about it bc im publishing anonymously and i dont know if i wanna be associated w the fandom at all #but then it'd be silly if i end up making fanart of my own fanfic and i have to pretend i didnt write it. or well. idk #woe is a shrimp with autism. #oh man i think if i cared more about my social image id be crying pissing about being seen as contrarian just to be quirky #'whys the two fandom u make content for the fandoms you hate huh???!!' you see the way my brain works means that if somethings Good #I would happily enjoy it and then let it go. but if its bad. in my hatred i gnaw unwittingly sinking my teeth into putrid flesh #and making it a part of me forever . #just kidding its just until i loose the hyperfixation n then its meaningless to me

[walkingstackofbooks]

Accountability post - I am not going to proofread the Julian drugged gangbang fic, and I'm definitely not going to post it until I have written either 3k more words of VA, or completed the next scene, whichever comes first.

And I should probably add unpacking my suitcase to that, too.

This I do so swear in front of all these assembled witnesses 🖖 🤣

#Because I have just realised that the amount of VA I have published is 3x the amount I have written in that same time #And although I've currently got 7 more chapters I think before I run out #I'm about to have a very busy few weeks #and I might well run out before I finish #And I really do want to try and keep to my schedule if at all possible #Sooooo yeah #... And now I'm procrastinating in the tags again. #Go get lunch Andi #personal #writing woes #wsb

[daisyvramien]

Okay, so maybe this is a little niche and slightly out of left field, but hear me out, bestie: I am feeling so damn inspired by artists right now. I'm talking holy trinity here: Taylor, Hozier, and Lana.

Can I sing like them ? Heck no. Can I play guitar ? Well, enough to entertain a king as a court jester, I suppose. Can I write poetry ? You bet your sweet bippy I'll die trying.

That insatiable need to create something, anything, that's practically bursting out of me like a Jack-in-the-box on steroids. Like "there's smoke in the room and it's time to open the windows or I'll suffocate" type of need.

Sure, work is here, life is throwing its usual curveballs, but you know what ? I REFUSE to let that dampen this fiery desire and NEED to create. It's like, yeah, the world might be a dumpster fire, but if I gotta go, I'll go out vibing and doing what I love. And maybe this whole ramble is just me clowning around, but hey, isn't life just one big circus act anyway ?

Maybe it's the spring allergies finally getting to me, or perhaps it's the delululand citizenship renewal. It could even just be the warm weather making a grand comeback and just making me feel like someone digged up my body. But let's not rule out the very real possibility of some minor brain damage caused by excessive consumption of fanfiction but like... I'm starting to worry that I might be developing a slight case of god complex. Am I good at everything ? Fuck no. Will I still do it cause I love the daylights out of it ? Girl I'll go down swinging for damn sure.

Basically, here's me rambling on and on about the state of my overactive imagination. But hey, if you're reading this and you need a sign or a green light to just DO what you wanna do, consider this it, my friend.

GO BE FREE, MY CHILD!

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[atomicradiogirl]

how do i write the next great american novel without writing the next great american novel

#nat posting #writer woes #i’ve been meaning to write a book for so long but i have so many ideas and so little time #also so little motivation #i know i should just write but about WHAT #maybe i need a ghost writer #one day i’ll be a published author #it’s on the bucket list #idk my fanfics have been popular #maybe that’s close enough