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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:01 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428619) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:02 AM Author: Hilarious laughsome theater skinny woman When's your novel coming out? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428622) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:02 AM Author: well-lubricated ceo tcq (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428623) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:04 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig My next novel? I've written ten. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428629) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:05 AM Author: Hilarious laughsome theater skinny woman Yeah bro, of course your next novel. Gotta stay relevant. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428635) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:08 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig September. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428642) |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 2:03 AM Author: thriller walnut ticket booth internal respiration lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23434911) |
Date: June 19th, 2013 4:03 AM Author: fishy mind-boggling circlehead regret how feasible to mkae living doing freelance writing while doing own fiction on the side? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428625) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:04 AM Author: Rose Area you'll get in everywhere you apply. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428631) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:05 AM Author: Irradiated travel guidebook shrine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428634) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:05 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig Freelance writing varies wildly. You shouldn't count on it for a living. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428632) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:06 AM Author: fishy mind-boggling circlehead regret i take it even most writers who have published with major houses can't make a living off of their writing alone? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428638) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:12 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig Assuming you're talking about fiction, no. I work as a lawyer.
Fiction writing brings me an extra 10-20 K a year. Most writers teach writing classes and hope Hollywood stops making dumb comic book films sometime this century. |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:13 AM Author: Rose Area "Fiction writing brings me an extra 10-20 K a year" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428654) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:13 AM Author: well-lubricated ceo TY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428655) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:16 AM Author: Marvelous immigrant casino dude, every time i see a new comic book film i want to throw the tv screen against the wall. inevitably, a friend will ask me if i want to go see the "new" Superman or Iron Man movie. they aren't new. they're all the EXACT SAME SHIT! Batman's primary suspense technique? Some sort of time limitation. Everything is a fuckin race against time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428665) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 5:03 AM Author: appetizing self-absorbed fanboi guys in my hs practiced law and wrote 10 novels and posted on internet message boards all the time it was no big deal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428758) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:17 AM Author: Marvelous immigrant casino have you written a novel? how long was it and how long did it take you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428667) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:25 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig Publishing my tenth this fall.
By far, the longest one was my first. That took five years. Most of the time was lost procrastinating. You want to match the writers who've inspired you, and you end up setting your lousy drafts against their finest work, and it paralyzes you. That was my experience at least.
Then I just got over being Shakespeare and wrote three pages a day, rain or shine. Sometimes they sucked. Sometimes you hit something pretty neat. After three months, you have a manuscript.
This last book took me about six months. But look, if you're Shakespeare, take your time and get it right. |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:27 AM Author: seedy home pisswyrm do you know any writers besides shakespeare (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428685) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:27 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428687) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 7:41 PM Author: Adventurous marketing idea underrated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23432414) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:33 AM Author: Marvelous immigrant casino cool. what did you do after you finished the writing part of your first novel? did you publish it? how? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428701) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:44 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig Immediately after? I got drunk and fucked some bar skank.
I took about a month to edit it, then spent another three months agonizing over a query letter (it's not that hard). You send the letter with maybe the first ten pages to an agent.
After a few tries, I found someone. That turned into a six month hunt for a publisher, an almost book deal that fell through, and then a last-minute reprieve from another publisher. Nine months later, they printed it. It sold decently, but not spectacularly. |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 5:16 PM Author: Marvelous immigrant casino tyft. how did that publisher sell your book? bookstores? online? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23431541) |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 1:58 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig For my first novel, newspaper profiles, regional book signings and one TV interview (thankfully before the days of YouTube...I was pretty stiff and awkward). I drove to Barnes, Waldens, etc. with maybe 100 books in the trunk, talk for a bit, get discreetly sozzled, and sign. Amazon was still pretty new: I don't think anyone bought my first book online.
As a share of my writing income, online sales are an increasing part, but you can't beat shelf space. I'm guessing most of these are people who bought a previous book. Nobody's going to find me on Amazon by accident, and promoting online is tough. My agent will sometimes pitch ideas for a website or a blog, but I need a certain level of privacy and remove from readers to write.
I do a good trade at writing conferences. |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:20 AM Author: chest-beating bbw step-uncle's house you're a fiction writer just by virtue of the thread title. no requirement that you have to get paid. i myself have written and published fiction to the internet through XOXO since 2007. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428676) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:29 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig Well, I get paid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428690) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:20 AM Author: seedy home pisswyrm lol at fiction writers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428677) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:32 AM Author: shivering state how did you find an editor/publisher? who does you're cover art? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428698) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:41 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig I sent query letters to agents. Eventually one liked my book and found a publisher.
The publishing company does that. |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:54 AM Author: well-lubricated ceo TY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428744) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 4:57 AM Author: Irradiated travel guidebook shrine i want to read one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428750) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 5:05 AM Author: appetizing self-absorbed fanboi what was your first novel about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23428762) |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 2:02 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig Dude is seduced by a beautiful older woman, framed for her murder, and pursued across the Montana plains by cops, drug dealers, survivalists, and a mysterious peg-legged insurance salesman. It's sort of autobiographical because I've been to Montana before. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23434910) |
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Date: June 19th, 2013 5:17 PM Author: arousing piazza Who reps you? I have meetings w two preftigious as fuck agencies when I get back to NY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23431550) |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 2:05 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig There's an honor code among writers that even though you're supposed to promote your agent and shit, you don't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23434919) |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 2:09 AM Author: arousing piazza (Guy dodging the question with a BS response), no one asked you to plug your agent, wanted to know if you're with a big agency or some hack working out of a motel. Now that i've spelled it out for you i'm sure your response will be big agency. Continue on with your flame, i'm done. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23434938) |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 2:17 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig I apologize for interpreting "Who reps you?" as "Who reps you?" and not some infinitely subtle literary pecking order game. Learn to ask good questions, and you'll get better answers.
I'm not with a big agency, but she doesn't work out of a motel either. |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 8:44 AM Author: autistic violet puppy meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23435443) |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 8:46 AM Author: histrionic spot weak flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23435447) |
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Date: June 20th, 2013 10:37 AM Author: Lavender plaza Is this Denis Johnson? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23435779) |
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Date: June 21st, 2013 1:26 AM Author: Tan kink-friendly set codepig I wish. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2286362&forum_id=2#23442131) |