Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “instructions.” Write instructions for anything you know how to do. As detailed or as rambling as you’d like. Enjoy!
Instructions For How Not To Write A Book
- Have a brilliant idea
- Start writing it
- Spend 18 years snatching moments to write
- Finally type The End
- Realise that is not the end really
- Reread.
- Rewrite
- Reread
- Rewrite
- Get readers
- Rewrite
- Try and submit to agents
- Feel down, then perk up when you remember J.K. Rowling and Stephen King had many rejections
- Find an editor
- Get excited and look at cover possibilities
- Read feedback from editor
- Cringe
- Rewrite
- Reread
- Tentatively send out to next set of readers
This is when it can go one of a few ways.
- You find an agent, and get a fantastic publishing deal! Yay!
- You find your mailbox cluttered with rejections and you decided to give up… Don’t!
- You look at the possibility of Self/Indie Publishing, find a fantastically supportive community and find your success that way! Double Yay!
I’m at the post Editor feedback rewriting stage now. Thankfully there weren’t as many cringes as I thought there would be… It’s just crazy trying to find time to finish the rewrite!
Hopefully it won’t be long before I can announce something postive about this book!!!
But I Smile Anyway... 