Everything you're searching for is right in front of you …
Yup, poetry …
I don’t read a lot of it, and the little I do read, I understand about thirty per cent of it.
So, I opened an early Christmas present, discarded the note that said, “Yeah, I know, poetry. Just bloody read it, will you?”
And I read it …
And thought, Ah, okay … poetry.
Continue reading “Manorism by Yomi Ṣode”It’s those last few formatting touches that really take their toll. Sizing and rearranging to make sure that everything reads well and looks right. I imagine that this was easy when you just had to deal with print; now we have Kindles, iPhones, iPads, Kobos (whut?) and more Android platforms than you can shake a keyboard at.
And poetry is really tricky. Still, almost there…
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In my opinion, both Watchmen and V for Vendetta are outstanding pieces of work, so any advice this chap gives is well worth listening to.
The article from Digital Spy makes a huge deal of his advice to self-publish, but for me, the standout piece of advice was to keep writing: rework until you are completely happy with what you’ve done, and when you get down to it, you’re the only person who will know for sure when it’s right.
But on the topic of the publishing industry, he had this to say:
As far as publishing goes, my first tip is publishing today is a complete mess. I know brilliant authors who cannot get published… Most of the book publishers don’t want to take a chance on publishing fiction when they can publish an autobiography of The Stig or something like that… The best way these days is publish yourself, it’s become easier and easier.
I certainly agree that publishing is easy; the problem is selling what you’ve published.
Watch the video, and if you’re in one of those ‘what the hell’s it all for’ kind of a rut then watch it again.