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 Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:15 am Post subject: Writing for Publishing? |
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Is anybody on this site writing to get published? Like, maybe you're not posting it here, ut you're writing it and hoping it will get published? I was... I actually sent a novel to a publisher. They regected it and I started another one. I was writing to get published, but I've realised that it would be really hard for a 13 year old to get published.
So is anyone here writing a book they hope to be published? Or maybe you're already published authors. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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When I first started writing seriously, it was because I had an intense desire to see myself published, with my book in a store. This dream has never left me, but something else came along. I realised I enjoyed writing simply for writing's sake. I no longer write to be published. I'm never sure why I write, but I gain contentment from it and the thought of stopping has never entered my mind. Millions of good things have come out of it -- I've done better at school, I think it's made me a more intelligent person, I joined a site like this, I've made amazing friends.
One day, maybe, if I continue to practice, I might be good enough and hard-working enough to consider publishing, but for now, I'm happy for the rewards writing brings me already. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:51 am Post subject: |
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| I've never written solely for the purpose of being published but yes, I'd love to get some of my work published and have made attempts to have it published but so far I've only had short stories and poems published in anthologies so nothing major. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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I've only gotten one rejection so far, and I have the same piece in "publishing purgatory" as I call it. I won't know until, latest, December, whether I was accepted or not.
It's the first thing I'm trying to publish, so I'm pretty proud of myself. It's a short story though, not a book. I'm always hopeful that one day I'll write an amazing novel and get it published but....the cynic in me says never. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| I am currently writing a book and at first it was to get published but as I kept writing publishing seemed to fad to the back ground as my characters came to life. I have yet to finish the book (I don't even have a title) but it's an adventure in itself. Honestly I will try to get it published but I need to get my thoughts straight and write page by page till it's finshed. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:16 am Post subject: |
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Everything I write, I write with the intention that it be read.
The who, where and why don't really matter, but for what it's worth, yes I want the books and projects I'm working on to be published. I haven't submitted a major piece for publishing though; only short stories. It is on them that I intend to build a platform or profile of sorts before really getting into the serious novel-work.
And for what its worth, a rejection doesn't mean the book you wrote is crap. Only that perhaps you need to work on it more? If you just keep moving from piece to piece after they get rejected, you won't learn anything and more likely then not you'll keep making the same mistakes. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:57 am Post subject: |
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I am very excited about the publishing world, but writing solely to be published? Absolutly not.
So far, I've sent in just one devotion for publication.
Thunder and his pure awesomeness, 1. Other side that I can't think of a name for, 0. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: |
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I've always wrote on the intent to be published... which is probably why I have such a hard time writing. I get sidetracked about thinking what my friends and family would say... I had a bad experience with the first piece I tried to write... I printed it all out and had my mom read it (I was like 14...) and the only thing she kept asking was if the mom was based off her (I had made the mom mean) so she like..was giving me a guilt trip over it... -.-;
So I am always terrified about what people are going to say about my stuff that I keep getting stuck and changing things instead of doing what I love- just write. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Is anybody on this site writing to get published? |
Specifically? *snort* No. I am however writing again after a long lapse of time. I see there's going to be a new edition to the Literary Journal, and I'd began writing for that reason. It would be great if Nate and Brad accepted my short story and thought it was good enough to publish but really, I'm just using the Journal as my crutch to finish a piece that I've starting to have some fun with.
If I get published, sweet! If not, no big thing. I'm not going to go in a corner and cry about it. Just keep doing what I've been doing for a long time. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Is anybody on this site writing to get published? |
Well, I'm not writing to let it gather dust on the shelf. I love writing; it's what makes me, me. Why would I put so much passion into a novel, one that means something to me, just be forgotten with a slim chance it will be found and published and make billions when I am dead?
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I wouldn't.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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I've always enjoyed writing, but I only started writing in my spare time when I decided it would be "cool" to get a story, written by me, published.
Now, though, I write because it makes me feel good. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't start out writing to get published. I started as a way to keep in touch with my friend who was moving. (one of those back and forth story deals) Then the story got complicated, so I started writing it on my own and she started another story. Then I changed stories, and toyed with the idea of getting that one published. Now, three stories later, I most certainly want to get published. But writing just for that? I don't know. I want to be read, but that's the farthest thing on my mind when I'm actually writing. My writing has become a part of me, and publishing would be the cherry on top. I love cherries. I want it.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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I've always wanted to see myself in print, and I am working hard towards that goal. So I definitely am writing a book right now that I want to be published, but the prospect/possibility of being published is not the only reason I want to write. Writing is a both a hobby of mine, as well as a form of self-expression, and without it...
*shudders*
I agree with RoseyUnicorn; I like cherries as well. XD |
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