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I'm a new author and, for some strange circumstances, I ended up finishing three stories (first drafts):
Ghost Earthquake
Eri misses an earthquake that hits her city. She doesn't remember what
she as doing at the time, and nothing seems to have moved a single
inch in her apartment. As she tries to uncover the mystery, she comes
face to face with her deepest fears, and realizes the world around her
is very different to the one she once knew.
Themes: earthquakes, alienation, change
The Girl without a Soul
The main character goes to a mountain to visit his half-sister. He
hasn't seen her in years. She went there to undergo a spiritual
healing. Later he discovers her wound has something to do with their
elder brother, and that she needs him (the protagonist) in order to
recover from this affliction. But that isn't all. While he's in the
mountain he meets a girl who (apparently) doesn't possess a soul. She
is often seen in the forest near ancient trees. After he meets her she
tells him that he didn't only come to the mountain looking for his
half-sister, but also looking for her. That he must help her to
accomplish something. Something of utter importance.
Themes: love, isolation, the soul
Black Cuckoo
A story about a man who tells his wife about a sexual fantasy he has.
But that he's OK if she doesn't want to go along with it. However, the
wife suddenly stops talking to him, and after that a series of surreal
things start to happen to him: he's visited at night by a black bird,
and meets a young girl in the forest nearby their house.
Themes: love, relationships, fantasies
I'm in love with all of them. But I've been wondering which one is more likely to appeal to a wider audience, given that I'm a new unpublished author. I'm thinking of publishing on Amazon via KDP.
Should I choose the one with the most appealing title (I think The Girl without a Soul is the best choice). Or the one with the most promising premise (Ghost Earthquake)? Or decide for the one with more appealing themes (Black Cuckoo since it involves sexual fantasies, horror, and magical-realism)?
I'm confused, which one should I choose?
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I'm an author too with 4 published books.
I would like to say that:
1- Get alone with yourself
2- Don't think about anything related to writing
3- Listen musics different than your playlist - in your mind included
4- Watch movies from other languages
5- Call some friends you haven't seen for a long time
6- Do something unrelated to yourself but helping for someone
7- Spend few days without computer
That's your 1 week prescription for seeing a life which is you are already surrounded with.
After all there is no doubt about what to do next.
Good luck
I currently have 4 pending projects. For one book, which I wrote during the Nanowrimo, I have a first draft, almost complete, and I'm already working on the 2nd draft and hope to publish it soon. I only have outlines and notes for my other projects.
So, the way I deal with my dilemma is that I work a little on all of them, however, I've chosen one particular project - the Nanowrimo one to publish first because of the fact that I have all the information I need for the second draft. I have a very good idea of how my other projects will look like in the end, but I chose the one that is closest to being published.
So, like one of the members commented, if you publish one book and the readers like it, they will look forward to the next one. So work on the one you think will attract a wide audience (so far I think that the Earthquake one is very promising) and try to get it published, but work on the other ones as well. If you want, you can even publish novellas/short stories, as many young adult authors are doing right now, so that your readers don't forget about you too soon and have something to look forward to.
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