Yes, totally agree about writing every day! It’s not necessary, but it really does help to keep up your consistency and progress. I have an ancient little piece of flash fiction on my website, but that’s it. I don’t know what else I would post since everything I’m writing now are complete novels.
What a relatable video! Thank you! I've just received a Reedsy newsletter and there's this upcoming prompt for a story done in a script/play style and based on Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra comes to mind. I think I'll give it a try. Otherwise, I'm also thinking about getting my works out there gradually, starting this year. Let's do this!
Esp in self-publishing, novellas seem to be a thing. It's not my cup of tea because I don't like short stories sooo much, but it seems to work for self-publishers (you can publish many of them, earn money and you can also put them all together in a bundle for a higher total price, too). Last month, I bought my first novella from an author I just watch here on youtube, never bought a book from her before. Just because I like her and she published a book in june & I wanted to support her. So I went to her Amazon page and saw that she published a novella in January as prequel to said book. So I bought the new book plus the novella, and began reading the novella (haven't had the time yet to begin the other book). Long story short: Novellas are good for attracting customers, for those who want to have a fast "reading success" and if it's part of a world or series, then I guess it's a really good marketing tool, too. I don't know how it is in trad publishing, I guess, it's kind of hard to get a novella published if one is an unknown author, maybe as part of an anthology, but I guess the success rate of getting a contract for a novella may be low.
Oh very cool! I love the idea of novellas as a marketing tool, actually! I remember in the YA era of my youth 😂 Ally Carter and Lauren Myracle would publish super cheap (or free) novellas set in their books' worlds: some for Christmas, some for crossing over between series! Yeah I haven't heard of novellas getting traditionally published...but it's certainly an avenue I'm interested in!
Yes, totally agree about writing every day! It’s not necessary, but it really does help to keep up your consistency and progress.
I have an ancient little piece of flash fiction on my website, but that’s it. I don’t know what else I would post since everything I’m writing now are complete novels.
So true!
I've read that - love it!! Agree with you though, I am so deep in my novels, it feels like working on other things would be a distraction
FYI, you can move scenes around easily in Word if you use "Headings" and the Navigation page.
OH! Great info! Thank you :)
What a relatable video! Thank you! I've just received a Reedsy newsletter and there's this upcoming prompt for a story done in a script/play style and based on Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra comes to mind. I think I'll give it a try. Otherwise, I'm also thinking about getting my works out there gradually, starting this year. Let's do this!
Ooo I love this! I'm going to check out the prompt, some of them are so inspiring!
Let's do it!! 😊👋✋
Esp in self-publishing, novellas seem to be a thing. It's not my cup of tea because I don't like short stories sooo much, but it seems to work for self-publishers (you can publish many of them, earn money and you can also put them all together in a bundle for a higher total price, too). Last month, I bought my first novella from an author I just watch here on youtube, never bought a book from her before. Just because I like her and she published a book in june & I wanted to support her. So I went to her Amazon page and saw that she published a novella in January as prequel to said book. So I bought the new book plus the novella, and began reading the novella (haven't had the time yet to begin the other book).
Long story short: Novellas are good for attracting customers, for those who want to have a fast "reading success" and if it's part of a world or series, then I guess it's a really good marketing tool, too.
I don't know how it is in trad publishing, I guess, it's kind of hard to get a novella published if one is an unknown author, maybe as part of an anthology, but I guess the success rate of getting a contract for a novella may be low.
Oh very cool! I love the idea of novellas as a marketing tool, actually! I remember in the YA era of my youth 😂 Ally Carter and Lauren Myracle would publish super cheap (or free) novellas set in their books' worlds: some for Christmas, some for crossing over between series!
Yeah I haven't heard of novellas getting traditionally published...but it's certainly an avenue I'm interested in!