writer resources

1. writer resources

   #1

   I have created a new sub-folder within the epub folder up on Google drive that contains all the writer resources that I had perused and summarised. I've already put up a summary of all aspects to do with writing a short story from a book I read and documents regarding a particular way for developing characters. There are more to come such as the Snowflake Method for plotting and writing exercises that I haven't put up yet.

2. Re: writer resources

   #2

   I was sent an ad by Google regarding an online novel writing class by James Patterson who was apparently the first author to sell 1M ebooks (a mystery writer who wrote the Women's Murder Club series that I didn't read but liked due to playing PC games but I think I'll dig him up to read soon). So if I like his writing style then I'll enrol in his class and share the insights I gathered up on Google drive.
   
   For anyone else who might be interested: this class is offered through Masterclass.

3. Re: writer resources

   #3

   I know Michael Sullivan, the writer of the Rirya series, is self-published, fairly successful, and a big promoter of self-publishing. Don't know if he has any classes or such on it, though.

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   #4

   The James Patterson class is just a generic novel writing class. I'm not aware of any self publishing class being offered although I'm sorta up-to-date to this debate of self publishing being effectively vanity publishing etc. But I'm meeting a lady who had self published her first book this Sunday and I've opened a thread for that already.
   
   Re: this biz of self publishing, in a general sense I think that it will only become non-vanity publishing if you are able to tap into strangers via some form of social media and get it known besides your immediate circle. For this particular venture, I'll be announcing it on my blog. Even though I've just gone under 30 followers, it's outside of the immediate Strolenati circle. But all these marketing biz can wait, we need to get our 5 stories done first for the first issue.
   
   Anyway, reading up on Michael Sullivan's profile in Wiki is interesting so thanks for the tip.

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   #5

   I think you're absolutely right on the social media thing. I liked the Rirya series page on Facebook, and Michael Sullivan added me as a friend about ten minutes later, then invited me to like some of his other pages. You kind of have to be a relentless self-promoter to get noticed.

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   #6

   Well, from yesterday's self publishing chat that I went to, the lady who self-published her first book said that you have to draw your boundaries with how intimate you want to go with your readers etc. so I guess it cuts both ways. I'm certainly as far from a relentless self-promoter as you can get, I make like almost zero effort to reach out and get followers for my own blog, what followers I get are people who just decide to follow me on their own and in the initial days when I just started, I would follow whoever follows me back and leave a thank-you msg on their about page but now I don't even do that.

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   http://creativityhacker.ca/2015/12/01/51-things-that-break-reader-immersion/
   
   Seems like a helpful list..

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   #8

   Wow. Helped remind me why I'm not a writer :)

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   #9

   Bullshit.  Maybe not a published author (Not entirely true - you have, at the least, stuff in the horror epub, who knows where else :) ) but you are certainly one.  Pretty sure my stuff wouldn't last too long under this guy's gaze.
   

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