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      • Perspective Publishing LLC Perspective Publishing LLC 2 years ago
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      • If you want to write as a hobby, write as a hobby. It doesn't make you more or less of an author. However, if you want to find success as an author, whether it is traditionally or self-published, there are three things you have to do. First, you have to write a lot. Second, you have to learn the craft of writing. Things like spelling, punctuation, grammar, story structure, prose, and all of the elements that go into good storytelling. If there are mistakes, they take the reader out of the story and if you want to be a successful author, it is about more than being a good storyteller. You don't want to do things that take a reader out of the story. You want engagement. Third, you need to learn the business of writing. In short, you need to learn what agents do regarding book contracts and rights. You need to know what a publisher does from editing, book layouts, and cover designs to things like pre-release checklists and marketing. You should be familiar with these things because if you self-publish, to find success, you will need to do it all yourself. If you have a traditional publisher, you will want to be familiar with these things to know what to expect and to assure that your agent and publisher are doing a good job.
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      • Perspective Publishing LLC Perspective Publishing LLC 2 years ago
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      • Hmm... There are a lot of elements that go into good writing. I suppose I would start with being able to tell a good story. Stephen King said something along the lines that writing is easy. He creates interesting characters and then sets the monsters loose. This is probably a great place to start in storytelling. Next, you want to take out anything that takes a reader out of the story. Remove all of the spelling and grammar mistakes that you can find, then have someone else read it and see if they can find any mistakes. Once you correct them, ask yourself two questions after reading each passage. Can I say it with less? If the answer is yes, then say it with less. Next, are there places where I can show rather than tell the reader something? Too much narration takes readers out of the story. Let the characters show the reader what you want to tell. Dialogue and action add to elements of the story. Always remember that you are creating a theater of the mind. If there are opportunities to allow a reader to draw a picture in the mind, avoid being too specific. Overall, doing these things is a great place to start for all writers.
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      • Perspective Publishing LLC Perspective Publishing LLC 2 years ago
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      • Our recommendation varies depending on the author, but we always recommend that an author not overreact to a bad review. Sometimes, reviews that are professionally written can provide much-needed feedback for an author. If you are self-published, this is not the honest feedback you would get from family and friends. It is important not to get discouraged if you get a bad review. Your story might not be for everyone. Everyone has an opinion and like people's palates, tastes can vary. Just because someone did not like your book does not mean that everyone does not. Just as it would be useless to tell an author not to read their book reviews, it would also be useless to tell them not to let a bad review get to them or to tell them not to get excited about a good book review. Instead, we tell them to look at the history of the reviewer, and the types of books they review, then weigh the value of the review. If the reviewer regularly writes reviews in their genre and the review is lower than the average, it might be worth looking at their feedback. But if they rarely review books in the author's genre, then maybe you simply acknowledge that they might not be a fan of your genre but read the book thinking it might be something else they would enjoy more. Whatever the case, positive or negative, you can't allow it to have an outsized effect on your writing or on your own self-confidence. You have to remember that like anything else in life, we are never perfect and are certainly not perfect for everyone. We all have room to get better in our respective skills. So...maybe we just get better and...take the compliments when they come. Evaluate the rest with an eye toward improving our writing.
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      • Perspective Publishing LLC Perspective Publishing LLC 2 years ago
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      • I think that with the passage of time, technology changes, and the ways in which media interacts with everyone change. As a result, people may be less familiar with the way that earlier generations might recognize, but they are more familiar with other forms of literary art that older generations might not recognize. In this way, they are contributing to new forms of media and utilizing information in ways that were never thought of in previous generations. When media changes, new media develops, and different ways of expressing literary art are created. It also changes the trajectory of stories. The nature of publishing is changing as well, just as the nature and availability of information has changed with the advent of the computer. Sometimes that change is for the better, and sometimes for the worse. The age of information has also resulted in the age of disinformation. The changes to publishing have created consolidation that has reduced the number of traditionally published titles in bookstores, yet massive numbers - for better and worse - of written works such that anyone can publish their work and make it available online for everyone. e-readers make it easier to download and read stories. More aware? There is so much more promise, opportunity, and absolute trash out there as well. Like all change, awareness comes with good and bad, not more or less. More like different.
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    • AllAuthor AllAuthor 2 years ago
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    • How do you think concepts such as Kindle, and e-books have changed the present or future of reading?
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      • Perspective Publishing LLC Perspective Publishing LLC 2 years ago
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      • They have changed reading in the same way that word-processing computers changed writers' views toward using typewriters. Many people clung to the nostalgia, but eventually, the benefits of new technology outweighed any lingering doubts as to the efficacy of progress. While many still yearn for the feel and smell of a book, it is outweighed by the ability to carry a library in a device a fraction of the weight and by being able to make it available from anywhere there is a networked device.
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    • AllAuthor AllAuthor 2 years ago
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    • Have you ever experienced "Writer's Block"? Any tips you would like to share to overcome it?
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      • Perspective Publishing LLC Perspective Publishing LLC 2 years ago
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      • The best way to overcome writer's block is to have outlines for several stories. When you experience writer's block with one story, switch to one until the block disappears. Alternately, collect news stories that interest you. Collect stories of interesting people. Create characters and set them in a story centered on the news story. If you do these exercises and you are indeed a writer, you will never have writer's block again.
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      • Perspective Publishing LLC Perspective Publishing LLC 2 years ago
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      • The most unethical, yet profitable, practice for publishers in today's publishing industry is the proliferation of hybrid-publishing models that pretend to share the cost of publishing a book with an author whereas they can do it much less expensively themselves by self-publishing a print-on-demand book on their own without sharing profits or giving away rights without ever providing a promise of print-run, the format of the book, or even divulging distribution and marketing channels. In fact, they often obtain all rights, they don't even have to publish it, other than the copies they agree to provide as author copies, the same as a vanity press would. Larger publishers utilize the income derived from hybrid and vanity press imprints to subsidize the books their larger imprints back, providing marketing support and paying print costs for larger print runs. Books that they choose to back. They say that it's not taking advantage if people know what they are getting in return for the money they are paying...their book with a publisher's imprint on it. But the fact of the matter is that many people do NOT know what they are getting into when they sign these agreements thinking they are signing with an imprint of a larger publisher and thinking they will be in the same position as the books these larger imprints are actually backing. In fact, the industry - at least for the big five publishers - has become so reliant on the financing from these vanity and hybrid imprints to fund their publishing ventures that many have stated that they would not be able to sustain their models without them. The industry is being driven by the drive toward self-publishing, smaller print runs, and print-on-demand books being published even by larger publishers despite the reluctance of physical bookstores to order print-on-demand titles beyond smaller local and regional orders to support community and local authors.
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    • AllAuthor AllAuthor 2 years ago
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    • Writing can be an emotionally draining and stressful pursuit. Any tips for aspiring writers?
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      • Perspective Publishing LLC Perspective Publishing LLC 2 years ago
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      • Treat it as a hobby or put it at the center of your life and fit everything else into that. It's that simple. It doesn't mean that you stop living life or that you don't have other priorities. It means you shift the paradigm and become a writer and fit everything else into that existence. Those that can find a way to do that successfully will finish stories and become published authors. Those that don't, won't. They might publish a single book, but they will not wake up every morning, look at themselves in the mirror, and claim to be an author without living off the glory of having published that one title for the rest of their life. It ceases to become relevant to anyone but them. It is much more difficult, however, to discount someone with numerous publishing credits, writing awards, appearances on bestseller lists, etc.
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