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Warlordz

Would anyone buy my book on Lulu when I am finished with it? I'm not sharing any details on what it's about yet, but the genre is Fantasy about four countries, the North, The South, The West, and the East. The South Country is being occupied by the Second Continent across the ocean miles and miles in the south.

The story starts in a small village with the main characters mom passing away. He gets a new guardian that owns a small Inn at the corner of town. Before his mom passed away, he would guard at the village wall, paid greatly in gold by the Commander Officer.

One day, the merchants from the North Country arrive to sell their treasures. A merchant causes trouble by a women beggar and gets thrown out by the guards until morning. Morning comes and a women is being chased by a pack of Three Mouths, dog like creatures that the Second Continent dwellers released to carry out their killings.


Does this sound good so far? The Merchant has a great part in it and so does the main character who travel across the borders of the First Continent to realize that the strange dwellers aren't what they've thought to be.


Should I continue writing and publish it on lulu?

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immabrit

Brilliant, we need you in the RP section if you have the time. I think that there should be some form of island raiders also for feedback who raid the invaders, and are allied with the king of the North.

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Xenonight2

Sounds like a video game plot and setting.

Not necessarily a bad thing.

And really, the plot is less important than the skill and execution of writing. Try posting the first paragraph or page and have a poll asking "Would you like to keep reading, or are you already bored?"

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Warlordz

My skill of writing is alright, but even if I did post the first paragraph, that's not going to be the final piece of it. I am going to revise it over 5-10 times for sure, adding and deleting unnecessary things.

But, thank you so much for your ideas already. I'm defiantly going to keep writing. I will post more details and updates!

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Xenonight2

Understood.

Just remember: first drafts always suck and are boring. Don't let that discourage you.

The best thing you can do is finish what you are writing. Being able to finish a writing project and read over it will inform you of your writing abilities than anything else.

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Warlordz

Thanks a lot.

So If i put this up with a summary, and the first 10-15 pages for free on lulu, and if you like it, would you buy it?

I was not going pricy, 5-7 dollars.

I'm not a money grabber, I just want people to enjoy what I like to write about and what isn't in the world today of "books."

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Xenonight2

Well, if I liked what I saw on the summary, and first few pages were exceptional, I would buy it and read it later.

If the first few pages were good, I would just keep it in mind or recommend it to a friend who likes fantasy. My reading list is huge and dense right now, so I don't have much downtime between books. Gormenghast is consuming my reading time, haha.

Also, 5-7 bucks is a lot for an ebook. I have no business sense, though. Don't listen to me there.

Hey man, if you ever want any writing tips, I can give you some. I've been told by many people, including published authors, that I apparently know my shit and I'm willing to share.

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Warlordz

Okay thanks a lot man! Indeed I will contact you!

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Anglo

I hope everything goes well for you Warlordz!

The important thing to remember is not to be very critical towards your first draft, and instead just write, write and write right through until the end. When you're editing and going through your second draft, this is when you become very critical of your work, and begin to rework things you felt could be improved, delete things which you feel are unnecessary and improve the grammar and your style of writing, but that is just my opinion.

That is what I do when I role play on these forums, when I'm in the middle of writing something I really enjoy I just keep writing until my post is finished, and then read over it, take things apart and improve on it, begin to add meat on to the already present bones, if you get me, but I have no expertise in writing professionally so don't take my word for it, Xeno seems to know whats what so ask him yeah ^^.

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Xenonight2

What Anglo said is exactly correct. However, many other authors have written in totally different ways. Anthony Burgess, brilliant guy, wrote each book page by page and focusing on each page in painstaking detail. Until he was satisfied with that he wouldn't budge or move on to the next one.

Now, what Anglo and I mentioned before, and what I bring up with that example have nothing to do with details. More important than writing skill is work ethic and consistency. That's what every great writer has in common: work ethic. Just get yourself a work ethic, and how it manifests itself is really irrelevant in terms of growing as a writer since with a work ethic you definitely will grow. Whether that manifestation is what Anglo and I suggested, or what Anthony Burgess did, it doesn't matter. Don't worry about it.

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