Once upon a long ago, I tried my hand at writing. Nothing ever came of it, just an unbridled enthusiasm from the mid 90s to the early 2000s probably due to the computer enabling you to write, rewrite and tweak your text as much as you like. Nothing came of it, but the few things that I'm proud of can be stored here. This is a little tale I wrote circa 2005 about a blundering bonehead trying to break his way into the publishing business and failing miserably. The references to early internet use have dated it a little, but I still like it...
I saw the link to this on Writer Beware. Thanks for the read! And "Death on the Nile" is one of my favorite Christie novels - remember Mrs. Otterbourne, the once-famous writer well past her sell-by date?
Aye, that sounds all-too-familiar. It isn't easy to be a "working" author although it is possible. There's a lot of chicken/egg scenarios out there and a lot of people on the outskirts working with or for writers. Some of them are scammers. Some are perfectly legit. However, the legit ones generally offer straight services rather than vague promises. I work as a manuscript assessor and editor and some of my clients are people who assist writers in self-publishing - for a fee. I have seen books appear from these relationships and they look good to me. Are the authors satisfied? I don't know. Would I buy some of these books? I would, if I hadn't already read them over and over while working on the edits. Some of them (and some solo-self-published ones) are excellent.
Once upon a long ago, I tried my hand at writing. Nothing ever came of it, just an unbridled enthusiasm from the mid 90s to the early 2000s probably due to the computer enabling you to write, rewrite and tweak your text as much as you like. Nothing came of it, but the few things that I'm proud of can be stored here. This is a little tale I wrote circa 2005 about a blundering bonehead trying to break his way into the publishing business and failing miserably. The references to early internet use have dated it a little, but I still like it...
ReplyDeleteI saw the link to this on Writer Beware. Thanks for the read! And "Death on the Nile" is one of my favorite Christie novels - remember Mrs. Otterbourne, the once-famous writer well past her sell-by date?
ReplyDeleteAye, that sounds all-too-familiar. It isn't easy to be a "working" author although it is possible. There's a lot of chicken/egg scenarios out there and a lot of people on the outskirts working with or for writers. Some of them are scammers. Some are perfectly legit. However, the legit ones generally offer straight services rather than vague promises. I work as a manuscript assessor and editor and some of my clients are people who assist writers in self-publishing - for a fee. I have seen books appear from these relationships and they look good to me. Are the authors satisfied? I don't know. Would I buy some of these books? I would, if I hadn't already read them over and over while working on the edits. Some of them (and some solo-self-published ones) are excellent.
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