Trying to be a writer

[Reactor]

If someone can translate Hungarian into English, I would gladly supply you with all my works Not to be concieted or anything, but these novels of mine are really great - I say this as a writer, and as a critic too. A lot of neutral people have read these stories, and in 95%, I received a full positive response, apart from typing mistakes,which were, of course, corrected.

I decided to unleash Reactorfighter once I finished two more of his missions. While in the first novel, he was pure evil, and in the second novel, he was mostly neutral, the last 3 missions (Infiltrator,Arctise,Purgatory) he'll be eventually a good guy. Even as a serveant of an extraterrestial force, his own free will guides him through newer and newer adventures, and since he "follows his own ways", he will still often behave as an evil character. Then when all five missions are complete, I'll fix up the whole series in the Reactorfighter-volume with the subtitles Introduction, Darkerworld, Infiltrator, Arctise, Purgatory.

As for the Disappearance of squadron 0111, it's totally enclosed, it could not be continued, therefore I'll (perhaps) insert it to a collection of novels, with the title Vitriol dreams or Tesseract or perhaps Weapondance. I've got quite many ideas for short stories, although I DO prefer long novels. Since the Disappearance of squadron 0111 is not THAT long, a few novels would perfectly fit in a 500-600 pages long collection.

[Joiey]

Another helpful tip -- start writing nonfiction, fillers, and the like. That's how and where I started and found success at being published relatively early on. I've continued to follow my dream of writing fiction but I really have no desire to be a millionaire or famous. In the many years I have been writing it is only fairly recently that my fiction has begun to be published and I've been paid well a couple times for my fiction. Again, I do because I love the craft and I enjoy the act of creating something new and different.
To date. I have no books published. But I've written a few novels. The first ones really stunk but I've kept at it and will continue to keep at it. Not for fame or fortune but for simply the love of story and language. Okay. So, I'm a bit weird. But I'm proud of myself and what I've been able to accomplish in my relatively short writing career (I started writing in 1989). J

[Reactor]

It's okay Joiey, my first attempts were all a bunch of bullsht. To learn the act of writing, you need to experience how NOT to write. To catch the deer in the forest, y'have to suffer wounds from falling rocks, branches, and insects. There is no bigger pleasure, which you earn by collecting pain along the way...and then y'feel that all that pain was not in vain.

Just my thoughts

[thymeoperator]

i don't have the patience to deal with all the rigmarole involved in trying to find an agent / publisher, and don't want to wait 9+ years like you have, so i'm going the self-publishing route first, to get my name out there, then if there's mild success there's something to bring to an agent / publisher later. i think it's much harder these days to get published than in the past. there was a time when writing was all there was, before tv and radio, and there was a time even just a few decades when people still read short stories in magazines. all that seems to have died now so there's no way to build a portfolio to present to agents. hence the self-publishing route seems to be popular.

[tcgob]

I don't know Meyer's work. The name sounds familiar, but I can't place it.

Keep writing. There are a lot of bad hacks out there that can't afford a "Vanity Press" print publication, so they choose the Internet as a different form of release.

There are a lot of writers that don't realize that they are barely mediocre. But they enjoy it.

There are a lot of great writers that were undiscovered artists until they were duly covered...by a coffin and six feet of dirt.

If you like writing, write. If you suck at it but like it, write. If it becomes your passion but you really, really suck, write even more.

I don't know if I'm making sense. In other words, time to write!

BJS

You might also pick up a copy of "Elements of Style" by William Strunk and EB White. You might also consider doing some freelancing work like I do. It doesn't pay much, but it builds your clip file.

[StarDragon77]

You might also pick up a copy of "Elements of Style" by William Strunk and EB White. You might also consider doing some freelancing work like I do. It doesn't pay much, but it builds your clip file.

Yeah, I've read that book a couple of times through the course of a couple of different classes and I agree with Stephen King in the rule of "eliminate useless words".