I had received so many rejection letters, sometimes I don't even received any. I had proven how hard it is to publish fantasy and especially sci-fi story. First reason, people don't really care about imagination. Second, people thinks that fantasy is story about ghost, vampire, werewolf, therefore it's actually a variant of horror (this I found out in an open readers forum, I know, they shocked me too). Only after Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games explode in book store, then people begin to care about this two genres. But once again, no one thinks being a writer is a serious professional job, so education don't support anyone who wants to be a pro writer.
So here I am today, publish my sci-fi script, by print on demand system. So far I had promote the book on facebook, I planned to promote it more after I really print some. My friends said that I'm so reckless, I agree when they said that there will be time where people will appreciate writers and these genres we are writing now. But I think, it took one generation to change society. Sometimes it took about 20 or 50 years for a generation to change, but sometimes it just took several years. So I decided to do this reckless thing, and publish my book independently. I really want to share it for free on wattpad.com, but if I do that, I don't have something to eat. I work hard for this piece, I do the cover design by myself, I edit the draft by myself (because I have no beta readers who can help me at the moment), the story had entertain me so much, I believe this story can entertain the others too.
Sadly, not much appreciation or response on this courageous yet reckless decision. But I'd say that I'm proud of it, I don't care if it's a mistake or correct thing to do, I do what I believe I must do. Even no one appreciate it now, someone might find it one day, and I'll be ready to share it. I just want my stories to be heard, and I know I'm not good at writing romance. At least I do something and took action to achieve my dream.
ReplyDeleteThe blogger has asked me to comment on his English and his writing. Please pardon me for my opinions, they are mostly mine.
Indonesians don't really love to read, not to mention write.
I strongly dislike wasted words. 'not to mention' when you do intend to mention is a cultural piece of trash. Yes it is OK English. But replace it with 'or' in the above sentence and it can be eliminated.
Or say what you mean:
Indonesians don't really love to read, or even more so, write.
This is not a grammar or English lesson, it is a writing lesson on how to use words to say what you mean effectively.
thank you, Prof Fishbreath. I'll keep that in mind :)
DeleteI am not doing every sentence, just ones that hit my eye.
ReplyDeleteI had received so many rejection letters, sometimes I don't even received any.
This is something you do a lot of. You go one way in a sentence and then veer off in another. It is a disquiteting thing for me to read. I do understand what you are trying to say.
And that above is two sentences joined by a comma. Try a semicolon instead. Or a period. Also the 'dont' seems wrong. As a native English speaker, I unfortunately don't have the knowledge to describe how it is wrong. But 'haven't' would be better.