: Re: My autobiography is exciting, but I'm an unknown. Should I make it a novel instead? I've kept diaries all my life and now have over 100...which I've recently started turning into an autobiography

My personal opinion is to try sell it to an agent as an Autobiography first - but make the back cover matter interesting - so that someone who picks it up and reads the cover - even though they don't know you, suddenly wants to buy the book to find out more. If you fail to get an agent after a few months of trying - turn it into a novel and try that.

I believe in doing things in a way that you can reverse them - if you do it as a novel first, you can almost never go back to doing it as an autobiography.

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: Re: My autobiography is exciting, but I'm an unknown. Should I make it a novel instead? I've kept diaries all my life and now have over 100...which I've recently started turning into an autobiography

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: You may write a novel. I'm not sure if you can or will though. :) If you do write a novel -- a fiction of an acceptable length to be considered a novel -- no one truly has the authority

: How much and which parts of a manuscript should I submit to an agent? I've got a book that I think is interesting and action packed - a traumatic scene begins right in the prologue, but

: What if my story seems too similar to a particular movie? I'm writing a story about fictional beings who have the power of the four elements. Only very few, very rare people posses the power

: How to stop viewing your story as a film When thinking about scenes and story ideas, I can't help but picture something playing out as a movie. It's so much easier to picture someone moving

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