It's been more than a year since I last tried to submit my memoir. I'd written an afterword. I neglected that for a year, then just now printed it out. I am still making the difficult decision to self-publish thru Amazon. Those who have done that, tell me again how it is?
And my tween book set in the 1980s--still don't know about publishing that one.Is it unusual for the same person to write in more than one genre, with more than one audience in mind? I'm pretty sure this is true.
I just now posted this as my Facebook status. And it's true what I said about starting to write something new.
I'd been wanting to start something new, but wasn't sure just what. I pulled some notes I'd made from a dream I once had and tried to go from there, but never got far. The dream notes were several years ago, so maybe the idea wasn't so great since wasn't fresh.
But now I have something new. It's hard to explain it just yet. But one thing I am attempting to do incorporate things like email, letters, texts, charts and maybe some pictures. I found in my Pages on Mac various templates for writing letters and copied one into my document.
Here are some examples of unusual formats:
A book I currently have on my TBR includes pages designed to look like notebook paper. Another includes newspaper headlines from the 1960s. I have no clue how to do any of this! At least I learned how to type the trademark symbol.
More on this to come.
Your Muse is calling you again! So great! Go for it!
ReplyDeleteAll power to you if you can write across genres and age groups.
ReplyDeleteMost writers write in more than one genre. I know of some authors specifically who use different pen names for different genres (and then when one of those pen names hits, they'll sometimes let their readers know they write *different genre* under *different pen name*). Write what you feel compelled to write. Worry about marketing after you finish it.
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