Tag: publish

My goal for this space is to develop an audience

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Who is it that wants to read my book? Anybody? Once I get around to pitching it for publishers, however that works, they will want to know that more people than just my mother will want to read it. I have some grand ideas which hopefully will draw in readers. I am seriously thinking about creating a Substack. All the cool kids are doing it. At first, I had an idea to create a devotional which now seems pedantic and hard and not much fun. Another idea I have, which will require more time to implement, is to offer serial stories. It worked for Charles Dickens, right?

https://professingtruth.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/progress-not-perfection

I want to learn from what’s worked (and what hasn’t) in the past and adjust for the writer I am now

Keywords: amwriting , writer , writer advice , writer tips , writing , writing advice , writing community , writing tips

If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know I’ve done 30-day first drafts of my last three manuscripts. I LOVE this process, but now that I have a chronic illness, I may have to adjust this a little to make sure I’m taking care of myself.

https://valeriethewriter.com/2023/06/21/starting-a-new-story-the-basics

I want to see if I can turn a story I’ve had a version of for ten years into a neat little book on store shelves

Keywords: author , history , manuscript , method , new-year , publishing , retrospective , revisions

I’m coming up on nearly a year since I seriously set out to see if I could make something out of writing. It hasn’t been smooth sailing all the way, and I’d be lying to say 2021 went like I had hoped … but it’s been enriching all the same, and I do have a modest sense of optimism going into 2022.

https://jehonakercom.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/into-the-unknown

I want to confess and lace the truth – my truth – with some poetry and magic

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My middle-class upbringing, while I am deeply grateful for what I had, did not prepare me for the unfairness of the industry I entered, and it did not equip me with the skill that I could have only afforded if I had had socioeconomic privileges. It was easy for me to chide my restless heart, like every other time, for I thought, it pined for something that was beyond my reach. It has taken many years for me to meet the ultimate truth – nothing was wrong with me, but the system was rigged.

https://thebookdog.in/2021/09/17/hello-writing-my-old-friend

here i am, a year later since i admitted to myself that i want to be a writer

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so you have been creating art for yourself for a while now and are finally ready for the world to see it? actually publishing your work, well, that’s something else entirely. i started publishing my work on tumblr in 2018 (i think) and published it almost every day for a few years. with tumblr dying more and more, i decided to move to instagram and, after a few failed attempts, kept regularly posting since the summer of 2020. i’m not gonna lie: putting your work out there is hard. and trying to get it seen even harder. there are so many talented artists, how do i stand out, do i even want to stand out? do i want to constantly perform, constantly post? do i want to be a part of a platform that values quantity over quality? honestly, the answer to most of those was no, at least for me personally. but i knew at the same time that social media can also give artists a chance to be seen, a chance for their voice to be heard, the possibility to connect with other amazingly talented artists and with people who resonate with their work and for that, however challenging Instagram and co might be, i am incredibly thankful.

https://cowboysfromspace.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/sorry-mum-and-dad-i-want-to-be-a-writer

Getting paid would put too much pressure on what’s mostly just a fun project

Keywords: librarianship , pop culture , research in fiction writing , teaching

that lets me riff on and explore some research and teaching-related ideas in a low stakes environment. It doesn’t take much of my time (about an hour of my week) and what benefits it does have are worth it to me. I can’t make any great argument that this work directly supports student recruitment and retention but it’s not doing it just to do it. Not to me.

https://studyingresearch.com/2022/05/19/why-i-write-this-blog