I've decided after years of writing and only publishing two or three short stories a year, I'm going into BEAST WRITER OVERLOAD (yes, that needs to be all caps) and go all out with my writing. I'll be self-publishing one or two fantasy short stories a month from my Splatter-Elf world as well as a couple of other projects I'll weave in and out. I'll be working on novels and novellas in the meantime, which I'll be writing at whatever speed I need to, but hopefully try to get at least two novels done a year, if not more.
My main concern is that I may have a drop in quality since I'm trying to be much more prolific. There's also a concern of over-saturation, but I keep hearing from people who are successful in self-publishing to keep publishing stuff is the best thing you can do. If someone buys one thing from you, they may be looking for another thing from you. If you don't have anything else available, then they don't buy anything else. I've had people tell me they bought all the anthologies I have stories in. Which is certainly cool. But as of now that's only five or six.
I guess the key is to balance quality and output as best as I can. I've always been a hemming and hawing kind of writer. Meaning I don't want to put anything out there that's going to be perceived as sloppy.
So does anyone have any ideas on how to be super prolific and still maintain a decent quality? I'm sort of putting myself in the "new pulp" kind of category. Meaning I'm mostly writing fiction I hope is entertaining and easily consumable.
Thoughts?
My main concern is that I may have a drop in quality since I'm trying to be much more prolific. There's also a concern of over-saturation, but I keep hearing from people who are successful in self-publishing to keep publishing stuff is the best thing you can do. If someone buys one thing from you, they may be looking for another thing from you. If you don't have anything else available, then they don't buy anything else. I've had people tell me they bought all the anthologies I have stories in. Which is certainly cool. But as of now that's only five or six.
I guess the key is to balance quality and output as best as I can. I've always been a hemming and hawing kind of writer. Meaning I don't want to put anything out there that's going to be perceived as sloppy.
So does anyone have any ideas on how to be super prolific and still maintain a decent quality? I'm sort of putting myself in the "new pulp" kind of category. Meaning I'm mostly writing fiction I hope is entertaining and easily consumable.
Thoughts?