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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Writing DAMN good fiction and marketing.?


I have a problem with writing fiction. Most of the well known authors out there have basically written for years. I was once told by a friend, not to fall for the P/R of J.K. Rowling making it big in the business, because she happened to write her first book and it was very well known. So my question is do I have to spead years! in writing fiction, just to become a MASTER GOD over the craft of writing itself, by writing like a world trade center high of fiction, just to eventually end up well known in the writing profession? I am NOT doing this to end up a millionaire etc. I just want to educate and entertain. My sencond question is how do I market myself with a publisher? Because even though I'd have a publisher putting my books into bookstores, like Barnes and Nobles when I am ready, I'd still have some respondsibility for the marketing so what do I do about marketing a book? What about describing things in a scene? Does one have to give detail to everything in a scene etc. HELP!!!!!

I would suggest that you first get a grasp on grammar and spelling before you attempt to become a writer.

Yes, and even if you DO get it published it might not make it as a best seller or anything.

You have to be born with the gift of writing and most people figure out that they have it at an early age. I've been writing since I was 7.

If you haven't been writing for a long time then you probably won't make it.

You also need to read a hell of a lot.

And you're never going to become a "master god". There are very few of those. Most of us strive to be just good writers.

I believe the often-repeated saying that a writer gets about as good as he or she is going to get when he's written a million words. Whether that takes many years or many months is your call.

You can make your peak higher if you master writing mechanics like grammar, spelling, punctuation, proofreading and such, during your million words. Your message here suggests you need to work on mechanics. Everywhere your writing appears is your shop window, and right now you're showing inferior goods.

As you're writing your million words, take writing classes. Join a critique group or a serious-about-writing website and get feedback. The critique that hurts the most tends to be accurate, BTW.

Get your priorities in order, starting today. First, write well, and write lots. Mastery of the craft has to come first.

That will include how much detail you must provide in a scene, and why. (Hint--if it doesn't have to be there, it shouldn't be.)

Don't worry about signing with a publisher until you've first written your million words, then written and rewritten a novel you believe is every bit as good as what's on the shelves at the local bookstore. Don't worry about marketing until you've signed with a publisher.

Start on your million words today, and keep count on a calendar or elsewhere. Watch them accumulate, fast or slowly.

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