✰DoveyV✰’s Comments (group member since Aug 24, 2022)

✰DoveyV✰’s comments from the The Aspiring Authors Society group.

okay so that is hard to answer. I would say it really depends on what way you want to publish maybe, and even if or when you would want to publish.

traditional publishing I could see publishing on Wattpad being a good thing considering I’ve known authors to get discovered on there. but if you want to go the self publishing way then I would say just go for it and publish (after research). I think if you do self publish then it would make more sense to not publish for free and just work on publicity. you could just post sneak peeks and other things on Wattpad, like short stories relating to your book (I was thinking about doing this, and Soman Chanani recently posted a short fanfic about his own series on there lol).

in the end though it’s completely up to you and every author’s journey is different so it’s kind of hard to compare, but I think once you get going with the process then it’ll be clear what you personally need to do.

welcome Ameilia! I’m homeschooled too, it’s my last year though so I can’t wait to be done lol.

welcome Emma!

really? I could see it being an author name, but it’s up to you :) pen names can be fun

yay I'm so glad you decided to join, welcome to the group!

happy I could help :)
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technically a novel is between 60,000 and 100,000 words and a novella is anything below 50,000. but then that’s without factoring genre or anything else. like the Wizard of Oz is a novel and it’s like 40k and then you have some epic fantasy novels reaching 200k.

so what I’m trying to say is no matter how long your novel is it’s still going to be novel if you mean for it to

lol yes, it both makes you wince and laugh

being a writer is only writing 122 words of your novel after hours of “writing” then proceeding to write over 4,000 words of OC profiles in less than a day like it’s nothing

that would be so cool!

Ruqayyah wrote: "DoveyV wrote: "found this on pinterest just now while looking at aesthetics for my book and definitely not avoiding writing and thought I had better share it :)
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Lol
Call it 'active procrastinati..."

lol active procrastination is such a fitting title for it

Beatrix wrote: "Thank you!"

np

Beatrix wrote: "Hello! Does anyone know a way to do a poll? ( If that's possible. I have a survey I need people to answer for my math class and it would be great if I could get more people to answer!)"

if you click someone else's poll then look to the top right, above the voters list, it'll have three options- all polls, create a poll and widget. click 'create a poll' and it'll take you right to it. here's a link though for this time if you want it, it should work
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/new

found this on pinterest just now while looking at aesthetics for my book and definitely not avoiding writing and thought I had better share it :)

yay congrats!!! and may you find success and I hope that the publishing process goes smoothly, we’re all here to support you :)

@Raegan (both up top about titles and about publishing because I must have missed the top one) —
usually the title will come to me as I write but it may change slightly or even completely over time, sometimes that title may be temporary from the start like I’m pretty sure my wip has had at least three completely different temporary titles before landing in the one it has now. but of course it really depends on the person.
I’m personally going to self publish as like Ruqayyah said it gives me more control, that does however mean more work and money on my side but it also means more overall profit once books start selling. I talked to a published author once and he said that after he switched to self publishing he went from 10% to 90% so it would be good if you wanted to be successful in that area. it’s also more definite since the book being published relies on you and not a company choosing it.

also if you’re picking a specific amount of arcs and not just anyone who signs up then asking their normal genres and review length and detail would be a good idea to make sure that you get a quality review from the reader in exchange for the arc.

it really depends on what you want to hear but I think the most important thing other than the email would be to make sure they know the deadline and agree to having their review up by that deadline. also a lot of authors make sure the reader agrees to not let any spoilers out before the realize date.

happy to help ;)

Oh! missed part of the question, whoops.
I’ve gotten ARCs in PDF format before as well as in a legit ebook format so either one would work.

I was planning on using a signup form through Google Forms and the person can fill in an email address and anything else you need. Once the form is created you can post a link anywhere for people to sign up so you can collect their emails to send the link to the ARC to. As for where you’re keeping the book I think that depends on if you’re going through KDP or not, I’m not sure how KDP works but they might have a specific way to transfer free ebooks to ARC readers. There are plenty of sights that allow you to upload your novel for beta and arc readers though, you can probably google a list of sights.
Hope that helps :)