Congrats. Good that is in English. Going to get it when it is available

if people write stuff in their extra time i'd be more interested to read about their lives not some fiction / fantasy thing. and you don't have to be a president or some celebrity i'd read stuff from everybody as long as it's real

Congrats!! :)

Thanks to all who have answered :D

I'm self-publishing this one, since being in south america it will be an uphill battle to get a US agent. However, if you want I'll let you know about how the process with Createspace and KDP is once I go through it.

As for editing, I have a few friends who are going to help, one of them a literature major. I also have a friend who offered to create a cover illustration as a personal favor.


Will do! Thanks!

Continuously, without breaks. Mostly because if you choose to write only when you feel truly inspired you'll find out stories are really easy to begin but really difficult to finish. By stating I needed to write at least 1,000 words a day I did away with the whole "I don't feel truly inspired" today thing and kept moving on. I did take the odd day off if I found I had painted myself into a corner and needed to reconsider the situation, but most days since late may I wrote at least a scene each.

I had an idea, but it was a slow process. I chose the story back in February and didn't start writing until May when I had at least the main themes the novel would grow around (religion, in this case). I didn't know exactly what would happen or how except for a few pinpoints, however. I had a very rough idea of what would happen and mostly allowed the novel to grow as it saw fit. It worked for me, although I know some authors need to know every detail before they even consider starting to write something. It takes all kinds, I guess. I know there are others who start writing without knowing a thing about the story they're about to tell.

Well, mine is fiction. A biography can be interesting, but I like being spirited away for a while each day when I read. And nobody who ever wrote a novel about dragons brought themselves any credibility when they said it was real stuff.

PS: My novel doesn't have dragons. Sadly.

A piece of advice: be sure to have a native English speaker go through it before you publish it. No matter how well-versed in the English language you think you are, there will always be things to correct. Not having grown up with a language means that especially things like idioms are very difficult to deal with. A native English speaker can help you with that, and with ensuring that you are not mixing different kinds of English, which is another thing non-native English speakers tend to do.

Also, congratulations :-)

Oh, of course!

I do speak better English than many an englishman, but out of the three people helping me one of them is English and the other one has lived in Canada and the US for about 15 years now. They should be able to catch if I slip at any moment - in fact, one of them did correct my sentence structure a few years back by pointing out I had a lot of run-on sentences. They're awfully common in Spanish, so I wouldn't have noticed myself if it hadn't been pointed out at that moment :P
I'm aiming for late February or early March 2016!

man i'm telling ya bro you gots to keep you's sh!t together - daydreaming will get you NOWHERE... :-/ ya gotta be a kommunicator for da people just like Moses for his jews except you gotta keep it real ya know? like the damn bible - it says crazy sh!t in it but it also has some kind of history! when you write sh!t it means you down to represent us homie so don't go embarras us all in front of dem steam folk

Good job Tizzysawr. Best of luck to you.

Congratulations. Well done.

I couldn't resist posting this.

Thousand congratulative claps, hope it will prove to be a worthy read.

Congrats.

To take 11 years, how long is your novel?

11 years? Holy Toledo. And I thought I took too long spending 4 months to write a screenplay.

I always like Hunter S Thompson's style of writing. Months of notes and scribbled nonsense followed by one long night of writing fueled by whiskey and cocaine. Presto! Award winning novel.

Congrats.. After spending two years on my own I think I can probably understand what you've been going through...

congrats! finishing a book is a great achievement itself (no matter if the book is gonna be successful or not) . Best of Luck !