#WritersCoffeeClub 25/5: Do you use a cover artist or design your own covers? Share your cover art.
My non-fiction covers have been done by the publishers, often using my photos.
For my novels, I’ve done my own, again based on my own photos, using Lightroom and Photoshop. Below is the potential cover for Book 4, due in August. #writingCommunity#ThreeKindsofNorth#TheSunderingWall#VowsAndWatersheds#writing#books
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/25. Do you use a cover artist or design your own covers? Share your cover art.
I tried making my own covers. Didn't work out very well, but cover designers are expensive. They should be, it's value they create, but when my books don't earn much... it creates a rock and a hard place.
Anyway, I use cover designers now, and I'll share one that I love very much (partially because I love the characters so much and the designer totally got them).
#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 9 Nbr 24 — Is there any work of fiction you could have written better? Don't be shy.
There are plenty of TV or episodic dramas I could have written better. Doing so would have been procrastinating for me, though I have written my share of fan fiction and retconned really egregious plot advancement by stupidity...
Almost anything I've written, even a few years ago, could qualify as fiction I could have written better. I recently "rewrote" an earlier novella, changing and fixing a few details to retcon a prequel (including typos and grammar faults), then used that as an excuse to tack on the rest of a novel by changing the last couple of paragraphs.
#WritersCoffeeClub May 24 Is there any work of fiction you could have written better? Don't be shy.
I'm assuming we're talking about my own body of work - because I ain't trying rewrite someone else's story (fanfiction doesn't count, that's transformative).
My answer is - pretty much any prose I wrote between 1981 and 1998 + a few after that, give or take.
"Atlanta Nights". I'm sure I could have written that book in a way better way. Better meaning WORSE, and that's because I'm not a professional, unlike its authors…=)
That's a book that's so bad it's bad (and it was bad by design), and that makes it good…=)
#writerscoffeeclub#writing 24. Is there any work of fiction you could have written better? Don't be shy.
I have read lots of AO3 fiction, potboilers, and pulp from the 30 through 70. I think I can say that much of it I could have done a better job. Do I remember names? No,
#writerscoffeeclub#writing 24. Is there any work of fiction you could have written better? Don't be shy.
Then there are penny dreadfuls and 1920's books written for popular movies. I even remember the name of one "Lilac Time" after a Colleen Moore movie of that name.
I am not going to say any thing about what I could write differently or how different readers like different things. These are and were dreadful books.
Is there any work of fiction you could have written better? Don't be shy.
What, apart from seasons 7 & 8 of Game of Thrones? 😆
I’ve read quite a few books in my time, and some of them weren’t especially well-written. Others were, but I still find a few bits here and there that could stand a bit of revision. I’ve been re-reading Eddings’ Belgariad series to my youngest lately, and while I think it was quite well written overall, I came across a few passages last night that stood out to me as a little ‘clunky’ in the prose – I definitely feel I could have done those parts better!
The main thing which gets in my way of writing is sometimes I have incredibly low energy/many physical symptoms days during which I go into energy saving mode. Anxiety is another thing that I find distracts from my writing elevated levels=a quiet muse. Otherwise, I tend to sneak writing into my day throughout!
Not much interferes with my writing unless I allow it.
That’s the place in which I find myself at this point in my life. Writing is my cub & I’m a mama bear.
There are daily chores, like cleaning, cooking, or sometimes shopping. Beyond that, some activities that I participate in, like walking, serve my writing. Others—& really, this is true of life in general—it’s all material my writing feeds upon.
The fifth chapter of Stardust: Labyrinth is out! Horrifying event after horrifying event happens as the five tries to find their way back after the fourth chapter's incident, threatening to derail the expedition completely. Will they manage to regain their bearings?
But also: finding a process for serialised fiction (weekly releases) that works for me is taking more time than expected. I'm getting there, but I'm beginning to think that a weekly schedule wasn't a good idea in the first place. My plan was to write episodes of 1800 words, but the story is making me write episodes of 8000 words.
(By which I mean there's a list as long as my arm [mostly to do with the dayjob, which I'd love to swap for writing if UBI existed, and the disabilities, which I'm managing as well as I can given the dayjob stress and everything else], and a fair amount of it is spiking at the moment which is why I've been less around than otherwise)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: Is there any work of fiction you could have written better? Don't be shy.
The Star Wars prequel trilogy. Sure, not a high bar to clear. But once I saw boy Anakin, I was excited! It was a great chance to explore "How does an innocent become evil?"/"What is the source of evil?" And then the entire trilogy just failed to deliver on that, with a combo of "love makes you stupid" and pushing the source-of-evil out of Anakin and into Palpatine, where it's never explored.