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The optional question for this month is: Writers have secrets! What are one or two of yours, something readers would never know from your work? Readers would probably never guess I don't watch a lot of horror or vampire movies. I'm a wuss so I avoid horror, and, I dunno, I'd just rather read about vampires than watch them. Now, onto my post. I had another topic in mind, but I forgot it. I had this video sitting around and I thought it'd be perfect for IWSG, so I'm talking about this instead. Maybe I'll remember the other topic in time for the next one. What do you think? Can writers keep up the mad pace to publish monthly/bi-monthly? Or will we see a drop in releases due to burn out?
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6/1/2020 10:16:21 am
I take it you don't watch vampire shows either?
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6/3/2020 05:19:47 am
Hi,
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6/3/2020 05:52:52 am
Sometimes the visuals of a movie are scarier than what we imagine from words on a page. Of course, sometimes the opposite is true, especially with my imagination. :)
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6/3/2020 08:50:44 am
I figured you watched them as well as read them! Interesting :)
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6/3/2020 09:31:56 am
I loved your video and it hit an important issue with indie publishing. I know I get burned out and have been burned out. I may write a lot of rough draft compost, but I find getting a book to a publishable state to be exhausting - especially if I try to do too many all at once. I am working on two different projects for the fall, which may be too much. I don't know yet. One of them is a novella and the other is a non-fiction title. I will see how I feel when I get there.
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6/3/2020 09:42:51 am
I hope indies don't get burned out but I don't think aiming to publish monhtly is going to work for most. I used to post blogs daily but stopped doing that a long time ago. I've been thinking of reviving those posts on a more spaced out schedule.
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Cathrina
6/3/2020 10:30:08 am
I'm extremely lucky if I get 1 book published each year. I have a new release coming out on July 10th, my last release was last January 2019. I am a snail writer, and I do have writer burnout at the moment.
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6/3/2020 10:32:58 am
I sure don't watch any horror, but I can't read it, either, so I'm a double wuss.
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6/3/2020 10:36:47 am
The expected pace is crazy, and I think it really can result in burnout. For a part-timer like me, it's impossible to put out new work that quickly! I try to trust to the "long game" and the slow building of a career over years, rather than driving myself crazy and producing slipshod work @samanthabwriter from
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C. Lee McKenzie
6/3/2020 10:38:38 am
I'm glad I'm not alone in being a scaredy cat when it comes to horror movies. I might get through a horror story in a book, but I can't read them just before going to bed. I have enough trouble sleeping.
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6/3/2020 10:45:34 am
I can't imagine how writers keep up that pace, but I know some do. I'm like you, lucky to write two books per year.
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6/3/2020 03:17:52 pm
I have a guy in my critique group who is doing the super fast releases and it freaks me out to even think about keeping up with reading all of those. Then again, I have kids so my perspective is skewed by my severe lack of time. I've given up on my aspirations to release and be successful. If I just finish the damn series and have a copy for my kids when they are old enough to appreciate it, then I will consider that a win.
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6/3/2020 03:27:09 pm
I don't really think that the "book a month" bunch is turning out much in the way of quality material, so if they burn out, no great loss. There is so much gaming and dishonesty in the Amazon system. But even a lot of traditional publishing has relied upon scammy games. Happily, I'm in a position that I will not care about algorithms when I finally publish - independently. :-)
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6/3/2020 05:39:11 pm
Some people can crank out a book a month, but they are short books in most cases and they aren't professionally edited. Some people can do it and do it well but it's a tiny percentage. If you care about what you're putting out, then it puts a lot of pressure on you. It's not something I can do, so I'm going to even try. Will it mean the algorithms will go against me? Yep! But I care about what I put out there and it's going to take me longer to get it right.
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6/10/2020 01:36:29 pm
I read Madeline Mora-Summonte's post who also said she can't watch horror despite writing the stuff. I get it. If you feel it on that visceral level, hopefully that comes across more authentically in the writing.
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