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  1. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    Nothing either Devouring or Ronald said had anything to do with selling the novel. It doesn't matter if I earn anything or not, although I don't at the moment. The act of writing is not a difficult one. The act of crafting a story is not hard. The process of going from writing to selling? I'm...
  2. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    Writing isn't easy? Writing is seriously hard? What have I been going wrong all these years? Writing is simple. Taking the world in my head and putting it on paper is both enjoyable and insanely easy. Writing for market? Simple. Writing for readers? Not even approaching difficult. Writing from...
  3. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    Although I don't entirely disagree, I need to point out that targeting the right 100,000 people means you will absolutely sell a million copies. Because word of mouth is still crucial.
  4. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    Yes. On a fantasy writing forum... How dare I assume the work in question is prose
  5. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    In other words: you watch movies but don't read books. Got it. Moving along.
  6. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    I do both. I write to market and write what I know and love. How? It's not that difficult. There is always a fantasy market. There is always a science fiction market. There is always a spec fic market. So the stories I love and want to tell? There's always a market for them. I don't chase...
  7. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    Damn. And I thought I loved a ridiculous argument. If those plots and interactions remained popular? They would still be constantly written. But they're not. Because the readership has moved past them. And with that, my time with this argument is done. (Note: No matter how personal you feel that...
  8. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    If you write only for yourself? Get a blog. Write fanfiction. Go to FictionPress. But that's not what authors do. Authors don't write for themselves. They write to be read. Picasso painted to be viewed. Beethoven composed to be heard. Shakespeare wrote to see his plays performed. Authors write...
  9. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    You just described the literal definition of a boring novel. The same characters, the same plots, the same interactions your readership has seen a million times before. A writer who is writing with a primary focus on getting paid? They'll write in the genres their readership exists in...
  10. Christopher Michael

    Write What You Know, or Write What Sells?

    Which is precisely the opposite of what anybody writing to get paid would do. Why? Because the readership does not want those stock, boring, characters.
  11. Christopher Michael

    Should I separate explicit content from YA with different pen names?

    I'm if the school believing you should have a pen name for every genre you write in, so my answer is definitively yes.
  12. Christopher Michael

    My latest book is a huge mess and I don't know how to fix it?

    No worries. I was talking about our issues staying on topic. Lol
  13. Christopher Michael

    My latest book is a huge mess and I don't know how to fix it?

    No. Apparently some people, me included,have issues
  14. Christopher Michael

    My latest book is a huge mess and I don't know how to fix it?

    For a discovery writer, it really isn't difficult. Even for most plotters, or people like me who fall in between the two extremes, it's fairly simple. In fact, it is far simpler for me to edit after the first draft has been completed. In answer to the OP, it looks like you've got it will in...
  15. Christopher Michael

    Be Honest: Why are you Really Not Published Yet?

    Because the story I was working on wasn't working. On any level. So I trunked it and am starting on one I think will work.
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