If you are just beginning
your fiction writing efforts, buy it, work through it, and move on.
The other awesome thing about nonfiction eBooks is that they're actually much easier to sell than fiction, and you can make more money overall, which can then allow you to fund
your fiction writing efforts.
Not exact matches
French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions)
writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science
fiction thriller that, like most Besson
efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.
When I set about
writing my next
effort at
fiction, I didn't think I had reached a level where I could feel comfortable that my
writing was on a close enough par with the thriller novels I was reading.
If I post my very specific
fiction writing goals here in a public place then I'll feel much more urgency about actually putting in the
effort required to achieve those goals.
Even so, while I don't remember a time when I didn't
write — poems and stories as a child, a few semi-serious short
fiction efforts in high school as part of an honors English course — it never occurred to me that I might follow in my mother's footsteps.
Personally, as someone who primarily
writes fiction, I prefer to think of the diversification
effort as «building franchises.»
As for blogging, I'm not sure it's the best thing for a new
FICTION writer, as it takes a whole lot of time and effort, which time could be better spent writing your f
FICTION writer, as it takes a whole lot of time and
effort, which time could be better spent
writing your
fictionfiction.
I suppose that my next «
writing»
effort will be to do my duty as Editor of «A Sea of Stars Like Diamonds», the N3F 75th Anniversary
fiction collection book.
On the podcast, Michaels talks about the appeal of
writing gritty crime
fiction and he talks about an organization he founded called Story Tellers that works with under - served teenagers and young adults in a community - based
effort to develop and promote literacy through
writing.
The other editors — Barrie Jean Borich, Creative Nonfiction, Sheila O'Connor,
Fiction, and Mary Rockcastle, Executive Editor — and I make concerted
efforts to publish
writing which reflects gender, ethnic, and geographic diversity and to make the consideration of such diversity part of the editorial selection process.