I'm going to write that book, baby.

[Thriftypreneur]

Also having no business writing and recently entering the self-publishing arena, I'll give a few pieces of advice that I should have followed before I started:

1. Buy and read Writing the Breakout Novel.

2. Buy and read 10-20 best-sellers in your genre. I'd argue that romance is probably one of the most difficult genres to write well, not because of the competition (because that market is absolutely insatiable), but because of the difficulties in coming up with a winning premise and constructing an escalating romance/plot/sub-plot(s) that don't bore the reader to sleep. (It's really a lot tougher than it looks... or reads, I should say).

3. Once you decide on something... anything, commit, get it down, get done, and get it published - regardless of how crappy you think it may be. Going through the entire process of finishing a complete story from start to published will teach you a LOT of stuff you won't learn without just doing it. I wanted to quit my first story at multiple points, but forcing myself to plug through it, I'm VERY grateful that I did. Not because it's topping charts or anything, but because of all I learned in the process.

4. Take advice with a grain of salt (even this), just because someone's method of writing works for them, doesn't mean it is right for you. Take CH's writing method - all that writing by hand and brainstorming and the slower pace - many would scoff at that, but it's exactly what allows her to push out winning products. Find what writing/brainstorming methods are best for you and work them to ground. In the end, it's all about writing the best story you can, so do what works for you in order to make sure that happens.

5. Keep a notebook of any book premises you randomly come up with - write them down without fail! Like, when you're sitting around watching TV and you think "If xyz happened in this plot, or if they wrote out the side characters back story, it would be an amazing read." Write that stuff down (with as much detail as possible!) and just let it build up, even if you don't use it. You'd be surprised how fleeting winning premises can be when they're just zipping through your mind during your daily routine. Then, when you get stuck on what to write for your next book, you may have pages and pages of random premises that can spark all kinds of inspiration and ideas.

6. You don't have to be a best-seller to make money self-publishing, you just have to find your audience. Even my weak first works have garnered some fans and have made plenty of profit compared to the cost to publish them.

7. Don't share your work until it's finished! I think most new writers are craving and looking for validation, but when they share their unfinished work, they get feedback that makes them change plots, characters, or even quit! - all before anything has even really been built. Changing some things after allowing someone to read your finished book is a lot different then starting to change something after letting someone critique your first two chapters (commonly called the editing phase. It exists for a reason ). Everyone, and I mean everyone, is a side-seat writer. I strictly adhere to the "you can't read it until it's done" rule and I'm so, so glad that I do.

Just some friendly newbie advice. Hope it helps. Good luck.

Oh, and I also found the same research about female pen names. Which is why I write under one even though I'm a male. Don't sweat it too much.

 

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[Selfy]

So thank you for MJ, then Chickenhawk, then Held For Ransom. I've been absorbing information here for months, but Chickenhawk thread really got me fired up which I traced back to HFM

I'm totally going to do this self-publishing. I have been running a blog for some time now with marginal success. The concept of which generally falls under Alpha male masculinity. Like I said it's only been marginal successful but I am ranked #1 as it is somewhat a deviation from the mainstream definition.

So now i head off to self-publishing. I write fast now, and my concepts are built. I would like to incorporate much of it to a romance novel. I would like to take a crack at the Alpha male sub-genre but this time writing for women! I would like add my twist to it. So yeah here it goes.. !

//edit sorry chickenHAWK not head.

 

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[Selfy]

I’ll ignore the “spike” book for now as I report on my June numbers. I’m sharing this bc @ctcrompton shared his, and I thought it was a neat thing to do, so if want to talk about your numbers please take this lead. The information helps us newbies.

I remember when I started this venture thinking if anytime it passed the $100/month threshold, I’ll consider it success. So minus that weird book that is spiking right now, here’s what happened.

- Ever since June started I’ve continuously sold at least one.
- Highest ever was a spike of 8 sales
- No reviews at all
- Write time hovers at 25 hours per book
- I ditched my cover designers and have opted to design covers myself (one of my wisest decisions)
- Two of my books accounted for most of my sales, ironically, it is the same genre as the “spiking” book
- My books seemed to confirm HFR that it takes approx 11 days if it actually is going to make it
- Most of my books are in the “slush” pile as referred to by @Thriftypreneur . They’re dead man. Until I make them a bundle.
- My book productions costs from this day forward is $9/book. Which is $3 for cover and 3 starbucks worth of coffee at $2 (with gift card). Coffee is my biggest expense by far. I’m considering saving my cups in the future. *evil grin*
- I have not done editing. I don’t have funds so don’t ask.
- I purchased these books to get started “2k to 10k”$1.99 (+5stars glowing reviews) Emotional thesaurus $6 (4 stars). Fire in fiction $10.99 -5stars (if I see this author in real life I will punch her/him in the face: total waste of money) – Total spent on books: $17. I will not buy anymore how to write books in the future.
- Spent $20 on 123srf for my $3/photo deal. Everyone is shopping here it turns out from the covers so I’m only looking for new photos.
- I guess the only thing left now is the sales.

I crossed $100 somewhere on the 25th. I thought it wouldn’t happen, I mean I thought it would take longer. There’s like other currencies that would push it to $150 or something depending on the rate, again that is without the "spike book" which ATM hovers at 50 sales in its second day. So all in all I’m on the green.

So yeah that’s pretty much it for my June report. I’ve been wanting to do this report, really. So I guess what I’m going to do next will be on the following post.

//edit: Also i'd like to thank you all for being supportive and giving such valuable information, and keeping the fire burning. Shout out to @ChickenHawk and the highly missing @Held for Ransom who I'm sure is too busy raking in cash that he's decided to block this site.

 

[Selfy]

This might help someone out there who is thinking about self-pub after reading the awesome threads by HFR or chicken hawk. It is especially helpful for those who aren't even writers. These are a couple of things I learned so far, a guy who is now on writing book 5. It is by no means a success post, quite the contrary, it is actually more of the failures I have so far.

You see, I released my second book, and got one sale. I put in 40 hours of work and I got something like less than a dollar. Needless to say, it was a soul crush. I stopped publishing book 3 and book 4. Something is wrong. I reread HFR's thread, and things started to clear up. Things that I didn't quite get when I first read it.

- Realize that what @Held for Ransom is doing is like a mental archery game. He said he is not a writer, neither am I that's why I find inspiration in his thread. He aims for a target, but being a non-writer, he is shooting at a distance blind-folded. To compensate for this, he gets cues from the market and uses the system.

- He spends roughly 20 hours per book for his 34 titles. A feat that I am still figuring out how he does. Ideas of having half-baked stories is a possibility. But I think this guy definitely has things systematized. He shoots the arrow multiple times, hoping one will eventually hit the target, getting better at each successive shot.

- The arrow is the story and it consists of three parts, the tip, the stem, and the feather. The tip, which is the title, cover, and introduction is more important than the stem, which is the actual story. If you're a non-writer, you have to really digest that. The story is the stem, a quality story plus writing skill like @ChickenHawk can get far, but quality writing without a tip will not hit the target. The end of the arrow is the balancer feather, which is market research such as understanding sales-ranking and leveraging categories. Non-writers like me, will have a weak stem, but we can compensate with the tip and the feather.

Now concretely, I think I know why book 2 didn't sell.

- I didn't do market research on Amazon. I just blasted with writing it and hope it stuck. I didn't know a fck all about categories, keywords, sales rank. What a stupid mistake and I paid dearly for it.

- The cover sucks. Man it truly sucks. I'm thinking of making my own covers, since I played photoshop 11 years ago. lol. The investment in relearning it will probably pay-off.

- I didn't focus on my tip, which are the cover, title, intro, and blurb. These things should have been my focus. It needs to be the focus.

- I literally spent too much time writing. I'd like to write a quality book, but it's not possible at the moment. I'm going more "modelling" my book after this.

The most important aspect that I learned is this venture is going to be HARD. Yes, now looking at Amazon knowing what I know now. It is getting a little more daunting. Try reading a real fiction-writer's book, then compare your writing skill. Man, what a demoralizing comparison. If you're thinking about entering this or are struggling to make it, realize that competition is a lot more fierce now. I don't think I'm dreaming that up, as the bulk of the books in the niches I looked at were published recently. Things are changing and I will still continue trying to hit my targets.

Good luck.

 

[Lauryn]

Are the other writers just building plot in their heads?

​

I definitely do this.

I'll start out with a basic concept in my head. I'll even create an outline. But, for some reasons, the words don't flow, or it takes too long to write. So then I get stuck, and I'm forced to throw something crazy in the works. It will actually work for me, but then I end up with a deeply modified plot that looks nothing like my outline... well it does, but...

It's like coming home from the supermarket with 80% of what you intended to buy, forgetting 20% of what you needed, and then coming home with a bunch of extra stuff you didn't need but also decided you wanted at the last minute.

 

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[Selfy]

I' m up to 6k words now of what might referred to as a verbal diarrhea. At least it gave the plot some form, some basic rules, and some characters.

I really have no business writing, but I do well with unleashing a torrent of words that would later take on form.

It needs a finish. The heavy slush of words also needs to cleaned up heavily. This is no easy task.. anyone thinking of writing as a road to fastlane needs to get their headcheck as it truly is a butt in the chair profession.

Roughly it would be 1k words per chapter. Building into something only the lords of the writing world knows.

I need to track exactly how much I've spending on this.. and would get HFR's time tool tracking. Some readers of my blog suggested I write for a manly audience. My novel is for females. I must reconcile the two along the way.

 

[joanna]

Ha ha ha, fun little updates. Great job with the writing speed. If you can keep the speed and add more and more quality over time you're on the right track.

- Do you guys carry the plot in your head? Do you have like a movie in your head then write it down to form?
- Do you guys hammer out a book hour after hour? Or do you divide it into sections? Or do you work it linearly?
- Do you guys get your work proof-read or reviewed? Is this necessary?

1) Plot in head, and see scenes as movies in my head (and they're even in colour ). Though I would like to / should do more upfront plotting (not just in my head...)

2) I tend to write in scenes. One thing I'm actually trying to work on is to not stop at one scene per day. For some reason, my brain thinks we're done for the day when I get to the end of the scene, which isn't very productive.

3) No one is perfect, especially when they look at their own stuff. I'm of the opinion you should get at least a proofreader after you're done. Reviewers are a whole other topic.

 

[Selfy]

The future.

It’s not rocket science what I need to do next. I’ll write more on the genre that is selling for me.

I think there’s mental component now attached to this, especially with that spiking book in the background. Nothing has to change. I need to be as hungry as I was as when I first started.

I wrestled with how I’m going to proceed, and after a long walk I’ve decided. It’s a good thing @UP came here just in the nick of time. She said something that resonated with me. I’d rather get 25 sales/day from 25 books than 25 sales from one book.

Did you get that? Here one more time.

I’d rather get 25 sales/day from 25 books than 25 sales from one book.

The reasons are mine. This is my path so that is how I’m going to take it. So on that note. Here is the new Selfy goal. 25 books by the end of August.

I’m not playing.

25 books by the end of August.

So on that note, I'll be taking a HFM style leave of absence. I have a lot to do. But here's my attitude at the moment. Cheers everyone!

//edit

Ok I think I got carried away from checking my KDP. It does that. Make you feel loopy.

A more realistic goal is 4 books in july +1 book for a male audience.

25 books what was I thinking --- lol.

 

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[Selfy]

Selfy Training:

When a book is uploaded without hitting the publish button, letting it marinate for several days, the faster "the review" time turns when published. Thus, the faster the book becomes live, with a window of approx <2 hours.

If you do a dirty-quick upload, it might take up to <12 hours for it to become live.

For timing issues.

 

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[Selfy]

Where the hell is this girl?

I forgot to add. If anytime this venture nets me $1k a month, i'll be approaching the most intimidating girl here in this cafe.

She's intimidating because she's uber-pretty. She comes in here with her kid sister. I think I she's a med student bc I saw a stethoscope peering from her bag.

So to make it interesting, she's going to have a special place when this venture succeeds. I'm not going to stop until she goes out with me. And I can be pretty persuasive guy. She will love me. But that's after I make this goal so this love story may not happen anytime soon.

The borrow income had popped me over 1k for July.

Ah! Ah! Ah! I cannot believe it!!

 

[Selfy]

So far what's been done:
-read concepts from HFM.
-I have a sub-genre picked. First book will be 10,000 words roughly.
- I read three books from that genre. I kinda understand what they want.

Current state:

I'm struggling now with the plot but I want to incorporate some of my masculinity theory stuff and project it to the story. I write fast though if it is free write.

Let's get that book outta there, baby!

 

[m_e]

Chickenhead

made my day!

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But seriously, good luck!

 

[Selfy]

So far the writing has grown to 10k then reduced to 8k then up 11k then down to 9k. I have the plot down now and the characters are built. Writing a book is hard work. It seems I can only write good for an hour then my mind loses the drive. I have to take a break for an hour, then write for another hour, repeat It is a slog.

This is my first fantasy book ever.

I don't expect this book to be a best-seller, I don't even expect it to get a lot of purchases. It really lacks the quality to be honest. Maybe the second book will be better.

I see now that the plot must be written in advance or at least a general guide-line. I am no reader nor a great writer. What I do have to offer is the ability to push through. The book will be released within a week.

Some questions for my fellow self-pubbers.

- Do you guys carry the plot in your head? Do you have like a movie in your head then write it down to form?
- Do you guys hammer out a book hour after hour? Or do you divide it into sections? Or do you work it linearly?
- Do you guys get your work proof-read or reviewed? Is this necessary?

I really look up to the people here who didn't have much of a writing background to go ahead and get successes in this field. Like I said, this really is hard work and I realize that this is not exactly a fast-lane business unless you had already put in the hours.

 

[COSenior]

While you're editing, exasperated is not a verb.

 

[Selfy]

Toggle says he spent some 3 hours in getting the knowledge he needed. He is hungry. He sees a cute petite girl sitting quietly in the corner of the coffee shop. Can he approach her? He hasn't been talking to many people since isolating himself with writing an erotica novel. Time to sharpen the fangs.

Maybe she reads erotica? She doesn't look the type. But perceptions of images are signalled social constructs hiding the inner-nature behind a brand of premium Arabic roast he reminds himself. He will never know if he never tries.

"Excuse me miss," he says cautiously approaching the girl, "I like your earrings. They remind me of my mom's."

"oh..?" she seemed confused.

"No i'm kidding.. do you have a dictionary on your laptop? I need to look a word up," he says smiling as he looked straight into her eyes gently shifting her perplexion into a slight attraction.

"oh.. yeah.. " she started glancing around the cafe. Was she in a hidden trick show she wondered.

"k, princess. Type 'exasperated' -- wait -- do you even know what that means?"

She gave him the same perplexed puppy look and shook her head.

"ummm.. neither do I. Do you like to read?"

 

[Lauryn]

Some questions for my fellow self-pubbers.
- Do you guys carry the plot in your head? Do you have like a movie in your head then write it down to form?
- Do you guys hammer out a book hour after hour? Or do you divide it into sections? Or do you work it linearly?
- Do you guys get your work proof-read or reviewed? Is this necessary?
I really look up to the people here who didn't have much of a writing background to go ahead and get successes in this field. Like I said, this really is hard work and I realize that this is not exactly a fast-lane business unless you had already put in the hours.

1. The plot is in a skeleton, but as I start writing, it starts to flow in its own direction.

2. No I definitely do not. I'm currently re-structuring my plot because extra characters are building themselves in, and I like Carmen's husband more than her. This means everyone may like him more than her, and that's not good lmbo.

To be more precise, I hammer out one chapter at a time, focus on making the scene entertaining and informative. I have written a sex scene without having any foreground for it, only because I was in the mood and needed to demonstrate to myself the theory that being excited about what you're going to write will make it easier to write - and it was. Oh it was.

3. I get it reviewed, and I have invested in Grammarly. I also have beta readers to look over the book for me.

 

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[Selfy]

Book two is done but unreleased yet as I wait for the cover.

Still crap but it's like crap with a spray of flowery perfume. And let's not forget that crap is fertilizer that bring forth the blossoming of sweet smelling roses.

Write time is 35 hours

Throw in some research and admin stuff and the total run time for this 10k word book clocks in at 40 hours. I banged this out in 7 days but it still felt like a real grind.

I need to get my speed up and my write time down to 25 hours to make it feasible.

Any ideas?

Gonna invest in some writing power. Fix my damn sentences to make me more professional at it.


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Problems with the first book.

I didn't anticipate that you can't drill down on Amazon all the way in categorizing your book.

It stopped at a category. It stopped at like romance/paranormal but I wanted it to be in romance/paranormal/hairydogscats/withtwolegs

The books I researched were in the hairydogscats/withtwolegs category so I wanted to put it there, but Amazon doesn't let you drill down that far.

So I guess I should have done more keyword research. It sold 3 in 3 days. But I hope it sells more. lol

 

[Selfy]

How many books are you at now?

Editing book 9. Book 10 will be a bundle pack. lol

 

[Selfy]

And you started in April? You're an machine!

I'm a dog, actually. But I dream of my wolf origins. *fack man snap out of it!!*

Hey! Yeah, I started in April. June would be my second month. It's been a helluva ride so far. I mean it has its low points, like how @joanna said in another thread from thinking "this shat is going to be epic" to "FML!!" But it has high points that gets rather addictive as well. Like when you refresh KDP like a crack-addict and see a bump in your sales. Makes you wanna do a rain dance or something.

Anyways, June is almost over. @ctcrompton shared his sales and I found it valuable, so I'll be sharing mine as well.

 

[Selfy]

So one of my books spiked up to 25 sales today (my prior record was 8 sales), after being out for a day. I'm not sure what to do at this point.. should I be doing something? I didn't expect it to get that much sales to be honest.

 

[Selfy]

I forgot to add. If anytime this venture nets me $1k a month, i'll be approaching the most intimidating girl here in this cafe.

She's intimidating because she's uber-pretty. She comes in here with her kid sister. I think I she's a med student bc I saw a stethoscope peering from her bag.

So to make it interesting, she's going to have a special place when this venture succeeds. I'm not going to stop until she goes out with me. And I can be pretty persuasive guy. She will love me. But that's after I make this goal so this love story may not happen anytime soon.

 

[Selfy]

I'm writing my 18th book.

What the heck right? Yeah I'm surprised of that too. But a bulk of them were super short erotica books, which although sold, were nothing compared to my paranormal romance.

Still, I am highly intrigued by erotica, and it serves as an awesome way to refine my writing.

My writing has gotten steadily better, but still not great. For example, name an emotion and i can give you an approximate body gesture to convey it. My sex vocabulary had increased leaps and bounds.

I have identified myself as a 60% seat of pants writer (ie. master blasting with words). But maybe it's because I can never get the plotting thing right? Either way. I have a general guideline of where the book is going.

I'm not going to be pulling HFR numbers even if I hit 33 books, that to me, is now certain. I don't think ill even get close to 15k at the 33rd book.

I will be outsourcing my first book. Gulp. Based on that, I'll decide if I'll go crazy with outsourcing or whatnot. As much as I find writing therapeutic, it's a big drain on time and energy.

The borrows figure finally comes out in two days! I'm predicting i'll get .15 per borrow. I can't wait bc I have a lot of borrows.

At this point 4months 18books out, you get some "data" from past sales, and a 'feel' of why something didn't sell. I've gotten better at photoshop. I can create a cover in a short time based on what the market expects. If I notice something wrong, i'll flip the cover and test -- how much can you do that with fiverr order? This is CONTROL.

I might be the guy who churns up 100 books. Bc I think i'm 1/3 the writer that HFR is, so 33 x 3 = 99 approx 100 until I see results. OMFG.

Here's another thing I learned: I spent too much time writing when I should have been spending more time on Market Research.

 

[Selfy]

"Let me out the airlock please."

You'll figure it out.

This writing venture made me read a real fiction book. Something I never do. It's called Wool.

Business, or trying to make it in the fast lane, is like being in the world of Wool, an underground Silo. You gotta believe that the outside world is a possibility, but to really know if it's a possibility, you must be willing to give up everything to know the truth. You must want it bad enough.

I guess everyone in this fastlane quest is in an adventure of their lives. We've been told that its possible. Now we gotta believe that it's possible and take risks and make things happen.

Banging book. I'm getting part two.

 

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[gregarious18]

I'm writing my 18th book.

What the heck right? Yeah I'm surprised of that too. But a bulk of them were super short erotica books, which although sold, were nothing compared to my paranormal romance.

Still, I am highly intrigued by erotica, and it serves as an awesome way to refine my writing.

My writing has gotten steadily better, but still not great. For example, name an emotion and i can give you an approximate body gesture to convey it. My sex vocabulary had increased leaps and bounds.

I have identified myself as a 60% seat of pants writer (ie. master blasting with words). But maybe it's because I can never get the plotting thing right? Either way. I have a general guideline of where the book is going.

I'm not going to be pulling HFR numbers even if I hit 33 books, that to me, is now certain. I don't think ill even get close to 15k at the 33rd book.

I will be outsourcing my first book. Gulp. Based on that, I'll decide if I'll go crazy with outsourcing or whatnot. As much as I find writing therapeutic, it's a big drain on time and energy.

The borrows figure finally comes out in two days! I'm predicting i'll get .15 per borrow. I can't wait bc I have a lot of borrows.

At this point 4months 18books out, you get some "data" from past sales, and a 'feel' of why something didn't sell. I've gotten better at photoshop. I can create a cover in a short time based on what the market expects. If I notice something wrong, i'll flip the cover and test -- how much can you do that with fiverr order? This is CONTROL.

I might be the guy who churns up 100 books. Bc I think i'm 1/3 the writer that HFR is, so 33 x 3 = 99 approx 100 until I see results. OMFG.

Here's another thing I learned: I spent too much time writing when I should have been spending more time on Market Research.

Have you done bundles by series or a related theme like "cheating Wives" or Selfy's Erotica bundle for your first 15 stories and put links to the other 3 books in the back matter. Are you in Google Play, BN, Apple, Kobo, Allromanceebooks, smashwords?

Not many people have the drive to pump out 18 short stories.

 

[Selfy]

Her name is Jessica.

I'm now writing book 19. I want to write up to 20 by the end of August. I still have lots of borrows so I'm confident (if borrows doesn't change payments) that I'll get the same income.

It's not about the sales. It's about the borrows.

I suppose because I took massive action that I benefited from that borrow deal program. Either way, this business model is now on evolution.

When I get to twenty books. I will produce at 5:1 ratio, which is ME five books and OUTSOURCE one book, with the goal of getting to 1:5. Which means, I have to start managing people and putting time into that as opposed to concentrating in the writing.

This DOG is going WOLF! Ladies love this. Realize, I AM this.

 

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[Selfy]

Thanks Cyber!

Update:

I'm learning how to write from the ground up. This includes fixing grammar, studying emotions, and plotting. I've just got started with plotting and this one will be a beast of a skill to learn. We're looking at hundreds of hours of study and practice.

The Hybrid Plan

I'll need to mix and match these skills with outsourcing because having quality author-level skill will take at least a whole year to develop. I have to constantly remind myself that I am not trying to be a writer. I tell myself that it is crucial for me to learn these skills for me to have a long-term edge. I want to compete on quality and velocity - can I have both without learning these skills? I don't think so.

 

[Selfy]

yeah, i'm alive. yeah, I'm still churning out these books. Can't believe I started this venture more than a year ago.

What's new? Well, nothing really, except now i'm an aspiring 'writer' vs. aspiring 'entrepreneur.'

I dropped all my outsourcing activities. I am writing all these books myself. So far I can pay the bills with the occasional spike here and there.

I'm somewhat decent writer now? lol. I can write deep pov, build romance arcs, build emotional and sexual tension, hide exposition, PLOT, write compelling hooks, know a bunch more techniques I ever care to use, and probably a thousand words of extra vocabs, different ways of saying the same thing but making it sound nice-basically, fluff. What the eff? I wanted to be an entrepreneur not a gottamn writer. The twist! The irony!

Can't complain thoughl because now, I'm addicted to the he-said-she-saids of my world. So yeah, keep grinding, process yada yada, labor in silence and success be your noise. I'm still an entrepreneur at heart.

 

[Selfy]

some of my concerns:

I understand that women want to read from other women. I will in essence be a woman writer. I don't think I can link back to blog bc that is for a totally different audience, and will alienate my readers (oh no he's a woman.. !!?!??!?)

The plot probably will be my biggest problem. Are the other writers just building plot in their heads? chickenhawk said she likes to take long walks. I tried to go that route and had a good plot. Then I sat down and it morphed to something totally different.

 

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[Lauryn]

I need to track exactly how much I've spending on this.. and would get HFR's time tool tracking. Some readers of my blog suggested I write for a manly audience. My novel is for females. I must reconcile the two along the way.

Pen names.

 

[Vigilante]

"I'm tempted to approach cute girls in this coffee shop to get some inspiration." -- that was from yesterday.

It turns out I did approach her and with execution I now have some more material. She wasn't into Alpha male sub-genre but rather, she was into rockstar (given her age). She was inexperienced with dominant males, having been brought up in a sheltered environment; and the fact he was 10 years older than her.

"I would like to dip you.. " he said.
"What for??" she said hesitantly
"research for a book i'm writing" he smiled as he put his arm across her back. He shifted her weight to her pelvic bone and squeezed his right foot between her legs. She felt a little uncomfortable but his strong hands kept her at bay and locked into his tight frame.

"but people are looking at us" she exasperated. He calmly assured her that he was a professional. As people were drinking their starbucks watched anxiously at the young couple, it gave the scene a sense of mystery and delight, a break from the quotidian life. Maybe that is what people want. To jar their experience to live in the fantasy like this young girl. She would wake up with a slight smile as she would spread the details to her friends through facebook. Yet it wasn't facebook, it wasn't twilight, she was having the experienced lived in real-time and she would not know how it would end.

"I'd shift your hand in the back and lock it.. do you like that?"
"no.. i don't like that."
"what if I grab your throat," would you like that...?
"no.. I don't like that either."
"then you are a freak of nature!" he mockingly tells her
"no I'm not!!" she replies obviously inexperienced in the way he would later contort her body. His own personal model for a book he's writing.

He silently ponders what it is that could probably turn her innocent mind into a reader. He ponders this an returns to MJ Demaracos forum.

//write time 20 minutes. No editing.

Maybe you should've taken the time to edit and at least got the forum owners name correct.

Fun read though.

 

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