If you've written for a while and you're past how intimidating the blank page is, and I really mean you have hit that point where you sit down and the words flow out of you, you'll probably find yourself gearing up for a bigger story knowing there are moments where you need to spend some time thinking through.
Those studies that all artists tend to do.
You'll probably be seeing this months or years down the line, but check in and see how my experiment worked.
Some of those studies become their own stories, not long, not novels, but they're nice, they get to something, they're readable. My current thinking is to put those out there (After a few drafts) to see what they do for my audience, to see if I can lure in new readers without asking them to pay full price on a hard cover. It's mean to entice.
Right now, i have one of those stories up on Amazon, called Dividia. I think the next one I'll end up publishing will be The Monster Names Daddy, which essentially gives the origin story for a character in the novel I published this year (called Between the Wires).
My current plan to have one of those studies turned stories up at all times, but only one. Those who miss out just miss out, and yes, there's a strategy there that I hope to report back to you on one day in the future.
But consider it for yourself. Put something that was probably just going to be a throw away out there for cheap, if not free. get the readers in the door. Make sure they're complete stories, make sure they're something you'll be proud of it in five years, make sure you do all the nuanced stuff that you're already considering while reading this. Give your reader a reason to take a chance.
When I see the kind of rewards those efforts bring me, I'll come back here to tell how how successful or how much of a failure they were.
-You can get Dividia here while I have it up
-You can get Between the Wires here
Those studies that all artists tend to do.
You'll probably be seeing this months or years down the line, but check in and see how my experiment worked.
Some of those studies become their own stories, not long, not novels, but they're nice, they get to something, they're readable. My current thinking is to put those out there (After a few drafts) to see what they do for my audience, to see if I can lure in new readers without asking them to pay full price on a hard cover. It's mean to entice.
Right now, i have one of those stories up on Amazon, called Dividia. I think the next one I'll end up publishing will be The Monster Names Daddy, which essentially gives the origin story for a character in the novel I published this year (called Between the Wires).
My current plan to have one of those studies turned stories up at all times, but only one. Those who miss out just miss out, and yes, there's a strategy there that I hope to report back to you on one day in the future.
But consider it for yourself. Put something that was probably just going to be a throw away out there for cheap, if not free. get the readers in the door. Make sure they're complete stories, make sure they're something you'll be proud of it in five years, make sure you do all the nuanced stuff that you're already considering while reading this. Give your reader a reason to take a chance.
When I see the kind of rewards those efforts bring me, I'll come back here to tell how how successful or how much of a failure they were.
-You can get Dividia here while I have it up
-You can get Between the Wires here
