when did this start?
it’s been on here for at least a few months.
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Unfortunately, I messed up the tags on part 1, so I can’t hop back to see when that was posted, but part 2 was posted on 04/09/21, so at least six months. Originally I had planned each part to take a week, but it took a bit longer than that. Whoops. This part specifically took a bit longer than the rest, as I slowed down my responses. Next part’s the final one. Unfortunately, though perhaps understandably, most of my players didn’t stay through the whole thing. >.>
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wow. write a book, a game script, or a dnd campaign, there’s potential in that noggin of yours.
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I actually have written a book! It’s out for peer review at the moment, and then after my editors go through it I’m gonna try to get it published! ^-^ I have this big tabletop campaign written out, too, actually, but I haven’t been able to get my group together. I think if I’m ever gonna get it done I’m just gonna need a new group. :p
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judging on your other stuff i’ve seen id assume it was some form of a fantasy/sci-fi book. if (when, fingers crossed) it gets published that’ll be awesome.
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Yep. Modern fantasy—so there’s magic & stuff, but also modern tech like cars & guns. If it does get published you can bet your stars I’ll be posting here about it (unless there’s another purge or something), so you’ll definitely hear about it when/if I do! Still not sure whether I want to self publish or not, though.
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i would imagine not self publishing it and doing it through some big company would bring more public attention, therefore more sales. but self publishing seems more surefire and maybe a little more impressive in its own right. i’m most certainly not an expert on this kind of thing though.
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From my understanding, going through a publisher would, as you said, probably lead to more sales, as they’d have much better marketing and whatnot. My concerns here, though, are that the publisher would basically control pretty much everything besides the words on the paper, such as the cover art and whether or not I’d sell hard cover books. They’d also own the license, so theoretically they could want a sequel, and hand it off to a completely different writer and there’s nothing I could do. I’m not even sure if I could make a sequel without getting a greenlight from them. It’s a bit scary to think about. On the other side, if I self publish I’d have a lot more control. I’d choose the cover art, and whether to make hardback copies, and if I want a sequel I can make one, plain and simple. My concerns here though are that I don’t think I would be very good at advertising my book. I don’t care too much about the money, but I want people to read & enjoy my work, and if I self publish it’ll probably just fall under the radar. If I’m being completely honest, my dream isn’t actually to write a book, but to write a TV show of some sort, and if I self publish, I highly doubt I’d become known enough for that to happen. So, I don’t know. Hard choice.
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you could use this first book as a test run, if you plan to write more. you’ve got to start somewhere after all. if you go through a company, more publication and that could lead to it being noticed and maybe a movie/ tv show adaptation which you’ve said is what you really would like to have under your name. self publishing would be cool with choosing your own cover art and whatnot. but i think if you know a publisher wants to take major control over it you can just say no to them and back out before you sign your life away lol. if you have a good relationship with the publisher i think they’ll listen to what you want/can/will do and if they don’t respect what you want to do, with what is within all rights your work. then don’t sign with them. i think if you find a good publisher, who is more of a human than a walking monetization algorithm than that would be the best. but since i am in fact a human, and not a previously mentioned algorithm machine. the final say is yours.
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Yeah, finding a good publisher would definitely be my best bet. Since this is my first time publishing, though, I wouldn’t know the red flags to look out for, though. Plus, if the stories I’ve heard are true (which they probably are) you’ll be facing a [i]lot[/i] of rejection when you go to publish. If I get rejected by, say, a hundred publishers, I might just be tempted to jump ship with the first one that says yes. I dunno. I think I have a lot of research on publication ahead of me. I’ll start diving into it more once my final draft is complete. No point in worrying my head off too much about finding a good publisher when I’m not even done with editing yet. :p On a side note, waiting for peer reviews is the [i]worst[/i]. Like, actually. Ugh. It takes so long! I hope the professional editors are faster! >.<
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research is definitely important, maybe read other peoples publishing horror stories and steer clear of what they did. i’d imagine there’s plenty on reddit or something similar. i would also guess professional editors/proofreaders would be better. they’re getting payed to do it so they’d best be. and again, since it’s the first time i think itll be a big eye opener for you to learn from you’re own experience.
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The big thing I'm worried about, as far as this being my first experience, is it's completely possible it might be one of my only ones. Unfortunately, I have this horrible habit when it comes to writing, where I write the beginning of a project, then jump to something completely different. It was [i]really[/i] hard actually sticking with this one all the way through to the end. Totally worth it--I love this book--but really hard. So, if I mess up this first chance, it's possible I've messed up my only chance, and that would really suck. >.< A professional editor will definitely be more thorough, I'm not sure if they'll be faster, though. I don't know how they do it, but they probably either have multiple projects they go through at once, or they'll probably have a queue.
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well getting a book to the point of publishing is more than 99% of the population who’ve wanted to write a book have done so that on its own is impressive. sounds like you’ve still got a while to think about it though so you don’t have to rush it, you’ve waited this long.
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I suppose that's true. I think a lot of writers fall into that same trap I do, where they start a project, and then only get partway through it before starting a new one. Even just in this time I've been waiting for a peer review I jumped between three different projects, only one of which I realized what the actual problem with it was. (if you're curious, that problem was that the main character was flippin' boring. I love my villains in that story, but I really have to fix the heroes.. >.>) But yeah, I've still got a while to figure it out. Two more drafts at least; one based on my peer reviewers, and one based on my professional editor.