Its time to roll out the BIG GUNS!
I have been writing fiction for... I guess the better part of 24 years and I have always had my eye on publishing my stories.
Through hardship and stresses of life like loss of job, income, house, broken marriage, divorce, moving house and loss of life in the family... I lost my way.
However... Legends never die. They are still all there in my head, waiting to be cast into the world!
I sometimes go for long times without writing anything and then my dreams become increasingly vivid. It is as though my brain shall create something out of nothing if left without the proper outlet.
I HAVE been having an outlet - Blogging on Hive. Posting articles as well as fictional stories all enabled me to use this skill up till now.
But I want to start working on the big projects.
I was also inspired recently by listening to he radio where a 12 year old girl from local Cape Town had become a self-published author!
So why not me?
Why should I continue to procrastinate and not just do what I love doing?
I have crafted a story that just brings me so much joy. Inspired and influenced as it is by many great authors. A story of Epic Fantasy the way that I want to tell it!
I will be working together with my dear @clairemobey who can help me with the marketing and many other aspects of this sort of project.
I have big dreams and high hopes!
I will start creating a timeline for the re-integration into my old stories, to get back into the writing and prepping. To write new stuff, edit existing work that is completed and to create a timeline for publishing my first novel on KDP.
I will probably need to use some Hive money to help with the marketing promotions and to pay for some decent artwork!
So... wish me luck and watch this space!
Thank you for reading this post!
Cheers!
@zakludick
You are mentally tough and emotionally strong!
Just one of these is enough to break a person. You're unshakable!
Well... in a way... I did break.... It was awful.
It really did cause me to stop writing... but I did start writing on Hive again, just not on my BIG project... but I am getting back into it and I am fully intent on publishing... scary as it may be.
Now you're back stronger and wiser.
Hope to read your posts.
More HIVE power to you!
!PIZZA
Thank you very much!
One piece of advice from the authors who presented about self-publisbing at the library: hire and outside editor! It needs to be someone who can work within your style to clean up typos and help find inconsistency without completely making your voice into something generic.
Indeed. To do that I shall need to be able to afford to hire someone.
So it brings us to the ouroboros of logic between getting started and possibly making money and finding something you need money for preventing you from getting started.
Claire did, however join a platform for ghostwriting and needed to study formatting and editing. She needed to study and do case study exams with moderators on the platform for both ghost writing and editing. They are quite strict with their requirements.
However, the platform is not doing that great because of the amount of AI writing tools are currently swamping the market and the remaining customers are not enough to keep the amount of people on that platform happy.
So I hope that works out! 😁
We have a decent chance!
I am so excited for this babe! It's been gathering dust for WAY too long. Thank you for including me and for giving me the foot up the bum I needed to continue with my diploma in digital marketing. We'll definitely need it!
You can DO IT babe! 💪💪💪💪💪
Go get it done!
I found my books! Revision satrts today and then I'll move forward again. What a great learning platform hey
That's great babe !LUV ❤️
Thanks so much my babe!
!Luv
!Hug
!Indeed
Let's keep pushing together!
!Hug
!Luv
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Good luck buddy. I know you can do it. Rooting for you!!!
Thank you so much man. I will need all the motivation that I can get!
Good luck on your novel. It'll never get finished if you never start. That's the difficult part. Take care.
!LADY
Indeed... make the plan and then ACTUALLY DO the plan!
I always remember this:
Yep, that's me on occasion. Better still, I just go take a nap, wake, then find another project to "look into".
That's good!
Well... I must strike while the iron is hot and keep pushing!
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