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  1. AubreyRose

    POV Question For Experienced Fiction Authors

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    Haha, I catch myself doing it ALL. THE. TIME. It's so freaking hard, everybody looks in mirrors every day! But yeah, I like leaving most of the description up to the imagination. I remember reading Nancy Drew, and without fail, one of the first pages would talk about her "strawberry blonde...
  2. AubreyRose

    POV Question For Experienced Fiction Authors

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    That's not second person, second person is "you", as in: "You stand in a room surrounded by rabid ferrets." You're thinking of third person omniscient. I'm guessing you're switching first person POV back and forth, UP? Hopefully you are keeping the POV switches between chapters and not just...
  3. AubreyRose

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    He's not a scammer, just condescending as hell. I just expected to be treated with more respect after dropping two thousand dollars on a course. Welp, never giving him another cent or reading another post.
  4. AubreyRose

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    Basically I posted a link to my startup in the FB group for the course asking for feedback. Then his support guy deletes it and sends me an email berating me for self-promotion and saying they don't allow links. I email him back saying "hey, maybe you could post a rule that says no links, also...
  5. AubreyRose

    Jumping on the bandwagon

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    Thanks, hope you like them! By the way, I know your idea is to "churn the books out" and that will work at first. Eventually, though, your books need to be so dang good that you get fans who will spread them, and that's where the art of writing and storytelling comes in. You may say you don't...
  6. AubreyRose

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    I mean, you can definitely go write literary or sci fi short stories, but it's just nice to start with erotica because it sells and it kind of gives you a motivational boost when you see your work selling. Plus, you can repurpose the sex scenes later on in your romance novels, I have totally...
  7. AubreyRose

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    I was not a good enough writer to start out writing novels. I don't think. I needed the hundred or so short stories to build up my skills in character development, sentence structure, and POV. If you can handle 20k stories already, then jump into erotica or erom novella serials. If you can...
  8. AubreyRose

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    It's harder to hit it big in romance for sure, but the payoff is commensurately greater as well. I've learned from experience how much it sucks to spend 6 months writing and polishing your first novel only to have it sink like a stone. You can do everything right and get unlucky; you can do half...
  9. AubreyRose

    On Book Cover Design...

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    Thanks for the rec, Steve! I would also consider finding premade covers if you have a lower budget. I know you say you have a "strong idea" but in my experience that usually means "bad client" - a book designer's job is to work within your genre to produce a saleable cover, not to please the...
  10. AubreyRose

    Jumping on the bandwagon

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    Doesn't matter; him and Marquez are my two favorite writers despite translation. Read Invisible Cities and you'll see what I mean :) "From there, after six days and seven nights, you arrive at Zobeide, the white city, well exposed to the moon, with streets wound about themselves as in a skein...
  11. AubreyRose

    My Fiction Attempt

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    I love that cover, it might just be my favorite cover I've ever done <3
  12. AubreyRose

    Jumping on the bandwagon

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    Haha, me too. I'm always like "welp, not as good as Calvino. Maybe in ten years"
  13. AubreyRose

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    Glad you like them, we're pretty much done with the HowToPubYourself stuff and I'm going to be moving more towards finding lesser known romance authors I like and helping them with promotion and cover design. I flippin love cover design, might end up doing more of that as I get better...
  14. AubreyRose

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    I'll be moving from SD in December so it's a nice clean break. It'll give me some time to build a buffer and make sure I can make it as a writer. More than that, though, I want to give my coworkers a smooth transition and it'll take time to train my replacement(s). I'm also hoping that as I...
  15. AubreyRose

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    More update: I told my boss today I'm quitting at the end of the year, and so now I get to focus on writing things! Woohoo!
  16. AubreyRose

    My Fiction Attempt

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    Congrats!! On both the novel and the weight loss! Process is so crucial. I have a quote up on my wall from I think Scott Adams' book: "Don't follow goals. Follow systems." Sounds like you're doing a great job :)
  17. AubreyRose

    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

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    Oh man, what a wonderful post to wake up to :) Can I use this as a quote for my website? I'm so glad your books are doing well now! I gotta say, though, that even with covers, blurbs, etc, the BOOK has to be good or it won't succeed. So... congratulations on writing good books! Happy...
  18. AubreyRose

    How my English Teacher Would Laugh

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    Do it! Anyone who WANTS to self-pub should self-pub! And come join us over at PubYourself if you have any questions :) I'd be happy to help out with your first cover/blurb. One piece of advice: I'd keep the two genres you're writing in apart with separate pen names if they're way different. I...
  19. AubreyRose

    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

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    This one. Overarching characters/plot issues would be addressed first. I'm not looking to improve someone's writing style in any major way - there are plenty of resources out there for that. I want to take good writers and get their books sold.
  20. AubreyRose

    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

    PUBLISHING 
    We'll probably start with romance since that's what we know best (and we know many more romance authors!), but I imagine we'll be branching out as time went on.

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