Well, this is my first thread on Veeky Forums.
I would like to know how many unpublished books have you written.
Currently I just finished my first book (YA epic fantasy).
I read on internet that most authors never get their first book published and that let me down to the point of having an anxiety attack.
If you could tell just a bit about your experience I will really appreciate it.
(I'm a mexianon, I apologize for my English, I know it's not the best)
4 epics so far
this is epic post 4
but published for your
satisfaction, on Veeky Forums
To completion? One. Everything else I never finished.
You sound like a faggot by the way.
I don't think people who write such things as 'YA epics' should be allowed in here. The place you want is Reddit, namely its subreddit /r/books.
As for real writers, Lobo Antunes - the best living novelist in the world - says he wrote 20 novels before publishing (and hundreds of poems, but up to this day he has only published one). You have to understand that didn't happen because he couldn't get a publisher. That happened because he didn't think the books were up to his standards, so he kept working until they were good, although later he said he should never have published the first two ones (both of which are now considered classics), because they were very bad.
Your case is different, however: the reason why you won't get published is that you simply cannot write.
By the way, what is the definition of a book?
I have written some 200 sonnets, some 10 or so sestinas, one canzone, and a few poems in many other different forms. I must have also translated some 50-100 poems from English, Italian, French and Spanish too.
Does that count as a poetry book?
>does poetry count
bruh no poetry gets published, and everyone right poetry
enough
Thanks for your reply. I posted here because I know I would get this harsh responses and not kind words.
And my book, it's not exactly YA but most of the main cast are teens.
are they young teens?
do u have sex in ur book user?
The 15 y/o princess has sex with her husband and lesbian lover. Nothing explicit tho.
And other main character (23 y/o) has sex with a whore, again nothing really explicit.
One, and it is going nowhere. On the fence about writing another but much more smutty, dark, and directionless to expose the real sicko lurking underneath my persona, suppressed and clawing at his cage to be freed.
wojack and pepe are the only good that has ever arisen in this darkest of places
lame
Thanks.
Stop devaluing and underrating your own work by the barometer of whether it is published or not. See it as a stepping stone, and realise a lot of great works went unpublished for a while.
Publication does not always equate with quality, plus you can cheapen your fiction by focusing on it too much.
Thanks user, I've been polishing and rewriting it for two months now. Also I made a list of publishing houses, twenty or so. Most of them are small.
Have you tried getting short stories or poetry published in journals yet? That’s always a nice step for feedback, confidence, and to network with editors in the literary and publishing world. It’s sometimes nice to take a break from the novel, too.
Not actually, I don't have any contact in the publishing world. I don't know how to approach those journals or magazines.
There’ll be a submission part for most of them, follow their formatting and you should get some feedback. Alternatively, look for short story or flash fiction competitions online. Great practice.
for poetry, articles and short stories they all have some sort of submission platform (usually submittable, but sometimes email or post) where you just make an account and send it in.
keep in mind they all take like 6-7 months to respond.
Someone shared a 400+ page book that reads like a giant Veeky Forums board, often emulating styles of the literary canon.
Which one of you did this?
back in high school I got introduced to serious writing as a means of venting out my feelings. I didn't start out writing, but editing my friends' works because of how dismal they were, and me being the perfectionist that I was spent hours rewriting and reiterating sentences to the point I realized I was better at this than they were; since then I suppose I might have written no more than 7 books, and only two I would say were decent.
Currently though I'm working on a screenplay with another friend of mine, and that sounds more interesting because I can get actual input from someone who has decent exposure in the field, so let's see how that turns out.