Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 7:50:09 GMT 1
If we decide to publish something, be it a self-publishing ebook or a novel with a publisher or a simple blog story, we must accept all the consequences. Because there will be consequences, Newton told us many years ago: if we carry out an action, an equal and opposite reaction will then be triggered. Today I wanted to talk about these consequences, seven to be precise, at least the ones that came to mind, some of which I experienced firsthand, others known from other people's experiences. Index History doesn't happen Rejections from the publisher Negative reviews Grammatical errors Poor sales of the ebook Little following on the blog Little following on social media 1 – History doesn't happen I think one of the worst annoyances for a writer is being told “I didn't understand your story”. It happened to me, as it happened, to tell the good Savior that I hadn't quite understood his story about him 12 hours earlier .
Luckily he didn't take it badly. I don't remember on which occasion someone said something like this to me, but in a blog story a reader didn't understand a passage and it seemed really Special Data strange to me, because I saw it very clearly. While reading, I happened to not understand a novel. I abandoned The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because it bored me and I didn't understand what it was about. It can be as "cult" as you like, but for me there are no untouchable writers. I read Hesse's Steppenwolf : it bored me and I didn't understand that story. These are giants of writing, but we have to talk about emerging writers . If I knock out a Lansdale story, Lansdale continues to sell. If one or more readers criticizes one of our novels, that's a problem.
How to make the reader understand our story? As long as we are talking about short stories that we publish on the blog, we can limit ourselves to a quick review, because publication times are fast. I don't think anyone pays an editor to publish a short story on their blog for free. That would be crazy and pointless. But if we publish an ebook for a fee or through a publisher, then it is different. In that case, at least, there is an editor and hopefully the reader understands the story. I think there are rare cases in which a reader has not appreciated and understood books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Steppenwolf . In those cases it is only the reader's problem, not the author's. If anyone has trouble following our story on the blog, then something is wrong. If we wrote in one go, it may be normal, because we don't have the plot under control .
Luckily he didn't take it badly. I don't remember on which occasion someone said something like this to me, but in a blog story a reader didn't understand a passage and it seemed really Special Data strange to me, because I saw it very clearly. While reading, I happened to not understand a novel. I abandoned The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because it bored me and I didn't understand what it was about. It can be as "cult" as you like, but for me there are no untouchable writers. I read Hesse's Steppenwolf : it bored me and I didn't understand that story. These are giants of writing, but we have to talk about emerging writers . If I knock out a Lansdale story, Lansdale continues to sell. If one or more readers criticizes one of our novels, that's a problem.
How to make the reader understand our story? As long as we are talking about short stories that we publish on the blog, we can limit ourselves to a quick review, because publication times are fast. I don't think anyone pays an editor to publish a short story on their blog for free. That would be crazy and pointless. But if we publish an ebook for a fee or through a publisher, then it is different. In that case, at least, there is an editor and hopefully the reader understands the story. I think there are rare cases in which a reader has not appreciated and understood books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Steppenwolf . In those cases it is only the reader's problem, not the author's. If anyone has trouble following our story on the blog, then something is wrong. If we wrote in one go, it may be normal, because we don't have the plot under control .