: Re: Publishing for Kindle I am very keen to get into writing, and have come up with several outline plots for short stories, novels and even trilogies. However, one hurdle, which I expect is not

With the rise of print-on-demand and (especially) e-books, self-publishing has become viable in a way that it never was before. However, this does not mean you should publish your first efforts. In most genres these days there are various websites that publish fiction, and these serve as a sort of minor league for up-and-coming writers.

At a minimum, getting published at these sites shows that a disinterested third party likes your work enough to expend the effort to publish it. It's a good way to get feedback and develop a reputation within a community. Once you do self-publish (if you decide to go that route), you'll have a much better change of making an impact.

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: Re: Publishing for Kindle I am very keen to get into writing, and have come up with several outline plots for short stories, novels and even trilogies. However, one hurdle, which I expect is not

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: Verbosity: when's enough enough? In corporate life I've come across two general styles of writing: terse and cryptic or long and complete. In my own writing I tend to go too much in the

: How to handle foreign military ranks? Suppose you have a character who has a rank in a foreign military - say, Feldwebel Hans. That's the equivalent of a Sergeant. On one hand, having people

: Sympathetic portrayal of devout, rule-abiding characters I'm having trouble portraying religious, devout characters as protagonists or viewpoint characters. When I try, I get the sense that the reader

: How do I avoid a â€œmid-story info dump?â€ I am revising the manuscript for a novel. About a third into the story, a major turning point occurs when the main character (through whom the reader

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: Re: Publishing for Kindle I am very keen to get into writing, and have come up with several outline plots for short stories, novels and even trilogies. However, one hurdle, which I expect is not

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: Verbosity: when's enough enough? In corporate life I've come across two general styles of writing: terse and cryptic or long and complete. In my own writing I tend to go too much in the

: How to handle foreign military ranks? Suppose you have a character who has a rank in a foreign military - say, Feldwebel Hans. That's the equivalent of a Sergeant. On one hand, having people

: Sympathetic portrayal of devout, rule-abiding characters I'm having trouble portraying religious, devout characters as protagonists or viewpoint characters. When I try, I get the sense that the reader

: How do I avoid a â€œmid-story info dump?â€ I am revising the manuscript for a novel. About a third into the story, a major turning point occurs when the main character (through whom the reader

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: How do I avoid a â€œmid-story info dump?â€ I am revising the manuscript for a novel. About a third into the story, a major turning point occurs when the main character (through whom the reader