Just Write - Stop Dreaming & Start Doing

Inspiration for aspiring writers. Stop dreaming of being a writer and start doing it!

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[idram7]

Do you work on more then one book at a time? If so, is it kind of like, painting with oil paint? For example, you start on one painting of a while.. While the paint is drying.. Go on to the next one and work on it for a bit.. Let the paint dry.. Go to the next one… and then back and work on the first on again?

[AdventuresInBedlam]

@idram7 Right now I'm only working on one--that seems enough! But eventually I'll probably have two projects going at once.

[MultiSmartass1]

@AdventuresInBedlam Sorry to be critical but I have been a writer for 15 years and you dont offer much here except emotional/touchy feely stuff here.

As a working writer for more than a decade, I can tell you what holds people back solely isnt psychological but practical-"How do I get published?"

How do I write wel enough to get atention/work? How do i get published? How can I make money?

That's what people need to know in this day and age.

My best on your novel.

[AdventuresInBedlam]

@MultiSmartass1: I can't argue with you there, except to say if you've not written the novel in the first place, there's nothing to publish.

[StarWoors]

Some of us are just LATE BLOOMERS.

[lilypil21]

I'm afraid to show people what I write. But I'm working on it. I have my total first book done

[darkvampwriter]

i plan to write out 10 short paranormal erotic stories this summer for amazon I hope this works. I use to write for free for an erotic website and people loved it.... now I want to get paid and published for sexy writing.

[Bexdastar]

Thank you this really helped me, I'm smiling again...going for walk and then starting once again! By the way you look like your 18 not 40 xx

[MultiSmartass1]

@StarWoors Interesting that you use The Celestine Prophecy, a piece of shit book, as your example of self publsihing success. Talk about garbage.

Also, interesting that you see this as an issue of my "need to be right."

I dont need to be right just accurate and true and what I have posted is absolutely that.

If people wish to self-publish, they certainly can-Iam not stopping them.

Do I think its a sound way to make a living as a writer? No.

Then again, writing books isnt either.

[StarWoors]

@MultiSmartass1 This is more about your need to be right than anything else. What do you think the majority of the stuff being pushed out by the big corporate publishers are anyway? GARBAGE! The Celestine Profecy was a self-published title before it was bought. Not all self-publishing options are VANITY PRESSES which generally rip authors off. If you have what it takes and do your homework you can do much better than the average author under traditional circumstances. You keep all the proceeds.

[MultiSmartass1]

@StarWoors Buying a car costs money as does self-publishing a book.

Again, this comes down to professional vs amateur.

Professional writers write and get paid.

Amateur writers pay to have what they have written published.

If people want to feel like they are real writers, let them self-publish.

[MultiSmartass1]

@StarWoors Depends on the writer.

Some writers will get publicity and others wont. That's always been the case and that's the business.

Frankly, it sounds like a better deal to have to promote and market your own books with a big publisher than the self-published route.

You have a say in how it will be promoted if you do it yourself and you have a big publisher who can get the book into stores and distribute them whereas SP means doing everything with little to no help.

Some choice.

[MultiSmartass1]

@StarWoors Self-publishing isnt new. The term is new but paying to have your work published has been a reality since the 19th Century at least when they were known as vanity presses.

I speak from a professional and not a amateur background which is what self-publishing is for-Amateurs.

When it comes to the writing professions, the internet and other technologies have ushered in waves of amateurs who dont know what they are doing but have the platform now to do it much more effectively.

[StarWoors]

@MultiSmartass1 As far as printing costs are conserned you have as many options available to you as you do when you go out to buy a car. Soft cover, hard cover, audio, e-books, print on demand, etc. Most importantly, you get rid of all the expensive, fickle, time consuming, and aggravating middle men who could potentially prevent your book from ever seeing the light of day. As I said before, some of the most highly successful books started out as self-published works.

[StarWoors]

@MultiSmartass1 It is an OPINION. Look I don't have to be right not do I have an AXE to grind. But I am a person who is in the process of self-publishing more than one book and the is the NEW way that more and more authors are choosing to take. Unlike the traditional route you're endorsing when you self-publish you have more CREATIVE CONTROL, even when you are published by a major publisher you still have to advertise your own books if you want them to sell because the powers that be don't it.