I could wait till I finish, revise, hire an editor to improve things more – but most editors only improve the writing, not the story. But it won’t matter if nobody likes these first four chapters. I’m pretty sure as a whole, the book will be pretty powerful. I have a brilliant storyline mapped out, with twists and secrets and revelations, and supernatural beings with powers, and ancient artifacts. Hence, the importance of publishing it now before I spend any more time developing the plot. However, it might actually be boring and pretentious. But on the other hand, I see a lot of awful stuff on Kindle and Wattpad, and I think this is better than average. I’m sure it’s not lifechanging, earth-shattering fiction. I just put the first four chapters of “Shearwater” up on Wattpad. I’ve been talking about this model for well over a year, and today I’m finally testing it out. If you can pull it off, you’ll be building a fan base who’s hungry to read the rest of your book when you finish it. Instead of spending months (or more probably, years) writing a book that doesn’t captivate readers’ hearts and minds, see if you can just write the beginning of one that does. So why not verify your intention by just writing the first few chapters and seeing how people react to them? If you don’t have a great first few chapters, the rest of the book might as well not exist.
The beginning of the book needs to grab their attention, and make them invested in finding out what happens next. If you have a great story but readers have to finish it to ‘get it’ – and they stop reading after the first 10 pages, your book will never be successful. They aren’t appreciated based on their writing quality. What’s the very least you have to do, to test whether there’s any demand?Īuthors rarely write from an entrepreneurial perspective, and that’s precisely why at least 80% of them will never make any money with their books. Instead I want to make a simple landing page and see whether anybody will pay for the thing I want to make (either a service or a product). In the start-up world, we use the term “minimal viable product” as a way to validate ideas before investing a whole lot of time and resources in them.įor example, if I think I have a business idea, what I don’t want to do is go out and register a business name, get a logo designed, rent an office, make business cards and a website. But there is any easy way to test which stories have the most potential. I know it’s not that easy, and I know my first few attempts probably won’t be great. I want to write amazing, popular genre fiction that thousands of people enjoy. However, I don’t want to spend a whole lot of time writing stories that nobody is going to read. Now I’m ready to begin publishing fiction. I published a handful of non-fiction books. Instead, I got my Master’s in Literature and started on my PhD. I’ve rewritten that novel a couple times but never finished it. I had some great scenes, but not a story.
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But the project festered, I couldn’t wrap it up, I didn’t know how to develop it. When I was halfway finished, I sent email queries to some literary agents, and got a few positive emails back and even a phone call based on my pitch. I spent months working on my first novel. NovemDerek Murphy wattpad, writing tips 242
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