Thanks for linking it, gonna check it out soon.All right, cool cats! The new NaNoWriMo thread is up!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=909548
Thanks for linking it, gonna check it out soon.All right, cool cats! The new NaNoWriMo thread is up!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=909548
Signed up to run the ad with awesomegang on Monday, Oct 13. We'll see if it helps.
Aaaaah! It's up on Amazon too now. ;_; Feels nice.
Dead Endings ~ A book of spirits, booze, and inappropriate funeral jokes.
Very nice!!!Aaaaah! It's up on Amazon too now. ;_; Feels nice.
Dead Endings ~ A book of spirits, booze, and inappropriate funeral jokes.
Congrats!
so awesome, hpro. I've read a couple chapters, working my way through it in bed. fun read so far!
A toast to your commitment!
Very nice!!!
Aaaaah! It's up on Amazon too now. ;_; Feels nice.
Dead Endings ~ A book of spirits, booze, and inappropriate funeral jokes.
Holy crap, this looks awesome! Congrats.
Great job Hpro! It's such a great feeling when stuff you've been diligently working on goes live for the first time.
Thanks, Nudull! Really impressed with how everything came out. Checked out the sample on my kindle and they even incorporated the bonus art (as well as the chapter art) into it. Fingers are crossed for momentum now that it's up there.
Thanks, cosmic. It's definitely a good (and surreal) feeling to see your name up there. I do wish I could shuffle the reviews I got on the publisher site over to here, though. I know they're really important on Amazon. They also set up my listing on Goodreads, so we'll see how that goes. If you have any pro-tips, I'm all ears.
I wish you and Irene all the best! I myself have been working back and forth between scripting for comics and prose (and I really should be hanging out here, more). Maybe we could work together on something, sometime?
Super cool! Another milestone, H.Pro.
I am advertising you on my personal Facebook page despite not having had a chance to read your book yet, so it had better be good!
Wow, feels like forever ago since I posted in here. My fiction writing has taken a nose dive off a cliff, but on the plus side I'm now three months into my tech writing gig at a major game company (still scared of disclosing it lol). We've got a big creative writing club that's helping me from stagnating too much. Doubt I'll be doing NaNo though as I'm going to focus on creating a daily habit of writing rather than pounding out another novel to sit in my editing queue behind last year's NaNo novel and this year's Camp NaNo novella. Also, I probably won't have time due to having a game launch and convention to worry about supporting in November.
Nah, I'm still trying to come into my own as well at this point, so no pro-tips you haven't already heard. Hell, if your publisher says things are off to a good start, good chance you've already beat me as far as lifetime sales go.
So yeah, good luck
Many thanks! We'll push it and see where it all goes. ^_^
Very cool that you're working on both prose and comics. Anything I can check out? You should definitely share and hang out here more. You get lots of great tips, feedback, and it's always cool to see what everyone's working on/their progress. We could also certainly bounce ideas sometime if you like.
Nothing I've gotten published yet (though I do have outlets, thankfully), but I'm certainly up for sharing and bouncing ideas around.
So, the awesomegang ad ran yesterday. Saw they tweeted it too. Looks like zero sales.
However, silver lining: my Amazon sales rank jumped about 8k spots, so maybe people with Kindle Unlimited were checking it out?
Anyway, am sad. Depressing really.
So, GAF, I want to write a webcomic. Not right away, but in the next couple of years. I'm working on my art and writing skills right now, but I'd like some advice.
It won't be a long-running satire or gag strip, but a focused light-hearted but serious sci-fi story that will be gradually but quickly released over a period of about 2 years. More like a graphic novel than newspaper funnies.
I also plan to make use a format similar to that of MS Paint Adventures; I won't be keeping dialogue and description in word-balloons with multiple panels per page, but instead keep them in a caption like format below the images, if that makes sense.
Most writing advice focuses on novels, which I'm following and making adjustments to, but would you guys have any specific advice that's suited for this kind of thing?
I love Writing Excuses and give them free advertising all the time.
Though I agree with Mike, I always notice that "wh" thing. My great-aunt speaks like that as well, so hearing him talk always reminds me of her. :O
So fredrancour, you gonna go on their cruise thingy?
It's too late for that. Now that you know, you can never unknow it.I will do my best to not think about the "wh" thing next time i listen to WE so that I don't start noticing it too.
It's too late for that. Now that you know, you can never unknow it.
Yep, ruined forever. Just like how the song "Let It Go" is ruined when you find out it's secretly about farting.
Yep, ruined forever. Just like how the song "Let It Go" is ruined when you find out it's secretly about farting.
We really need to fire up a list (do we need a new OT thread?) of those of us who are published. I just threw a list together in the reading thread based on someone indicating "if a GAFfer wrote it I'll buy it" and tried to remember everyone. If I've forgotten someone please either let me know or add to the list.
I suppose I could think about starting a new thread if no one wants the honor. Writing (and then selling) Thread?
We really need to fire up a list (do we need a new OT thread?) of those of us who are published. I just threw a list together in the reading thread based on someone indicating "if a GAFfer wrote it I'll buy it" and tried to remember everyone. If I've forgotten someone please either let me know or add to the list.
I suppose I could think about starting a new thread if no one wants the honor. Writing (and then selling) Thread?
so here's a pretty cliche idea: 'write what you know'
how important do you feel this is, either to your own writing or to others trying to write? i understand a fair few of us are writing fantasy/sci-fi and so this is going to have a slightly looser interpretation but i guess i would understand that regardless of what's happening in your fantastical world, the character/s should come from a place of experience and it's that that will make them fully-formed and 'real' to the reader.
now, my problem is that my main character is:
female
from a background of privilege and wealth
a person of colour (of mixed ethnicity in particular)
i am none of those things. would it be foolish of me to do this? has anyone here written from the point of view or followed a character distinctly different from themselves?
At least you have the balls to do that man. I haven't tried, and part of that is the fear of being told to go fuck myself.Writing what I know is easy, it's just not always very interesting.
Submitted a bunch of stuff for publication, recently, the first rejection letter came in this morning. Last time I got a rejection letter, it was fully expected (as was this one, I only ever expect rejection : P), but I still had to screw up the nerve to open the email and read it, and it was still a punch in the feelings.
This one though, no reaction at all. Maybe it only hurts the first time.
I got rejected recently too. It's truly a bummer but it made me want to get better.Writing what I know is easy, it's just not always very interesting.
Submitted a bunch of stuff for publication, recently, the first rejection letter came in this morning. Last time I got a rejection letter, it was fully expected (as was this one, I only ever expect rejection : P), but I still had to screw up the nerve to open the email and read it, and it was still a punch in the feelings.
This one though, no reaction at all. Maybe it only hurts the first time.
I got rejected recently too. It's truly a bummer but it made me want to get better.
So, I've tread the usual ground trying to get my book a few more eyeballs, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any other good sites to post on.
Do you have a website for the book? Or just a simple link I can throw on Twitter? I'm not super popular, but I know some writers who might pass it along.
Awwww, thanks, man. Word of mouth like that is gold, so I really appreciate it.
The Amazon link is short and sweet: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OEK0HQE/
Wish I had a few more reviews up there, but it seems to be the preferred buying site for the book.
If the story *starts* with the journey, is it really a flashback or is the rest just a time skip?so what is the consensus of flashbacks? so far my story opens with the main character on a journey/train to a city to start a new life, with everything 'in the present'. i'm playing with the idea of having her already there, with the journey being a flashback. the benefits to me seem to be i now have a time gap between the arrival and the start of the book where relationships and mundane stuff can be formed that i don't have to cover or perhaps even explain. what are your thoughts on the use of flashbacks?
If the story *starts* with the journey, is it really a flashback or is the rest just a time skip?
Well, I just bought it for my iPad, and I'll toss out a recommendation on Twitter.
so what is the consensus of flashbacks? so far my story opens with the main character on a journey/train to a city to start a new life, with everything 'in the present'. i'm playing with the idea of having her already there, with the journey being a flashback. the benefits to me seem to be i now have a time gap between the arrival and the start of the book where relationships and mundane stuff can be formed that i don't have to cover or perhaps even explain. what are your thoughts on the use of flashbacks?
Writing Excuses really is the best podcast on writing around that I have found. Such a shame that each episode is so short, I could listen to them talk about a given subject for hours : (
Apropos of nothing, the way Howard pronounces "wh" words grates on my nerves so bad...
you just blew my mind.
i mean right now it opens with a train journey, a girl fleeing her family. she then arrives in a city and blahblahblah.
but i was thinking if the story started with her already in the city, certain relationships can already be formed and the reason/details of her leaving can be shown in a flashback instead.
i don't know if the weight of this decision is easily explained to anyone else, haha, but i know flashbacks can slow down pacing.
also maybe i don't know the true definition of flashbacks and time skips.
You're awesome. <3 Every sale has a huge impact and the support means a lot to me. It started on GAF, and if I do get to go physical, it's definitely going to be because of GAF at this rate. Cheers. Hope you like it, and can't wait to see your devilish abecedary up next.