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Are short stories a good idea before writing and publishing a novel?
Asked Mar 12, 2012, 08:31 AM
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10 Answers Here are my ideas... I AM writing a full fledged novel that I am planning to self publish as an ebook... I've been working on it for some time and it is going to happen... Last night at work, I suddenly had this idea of writing short stories. Then about writing short stories about my novel characters... So, the real question is this... Does writing and publishing short stories about characters that will be in a novel, before the novel comes out, sound like a good idea? My main intention is to introduce my characters on a deeper level. I was reviewing my partial rough draft of the novel and realized that my characters don't have much in the way of a "face"... Lol. I will of course add in better descriptions and such before publishing, but I'd also like to have some back-story to them... Any comments? I'm happy to generally describe the book for anyone interested...  Thanks in advance. |
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| Oh. The Smashwords system doesn't do any editing at all. I should know. Like I said, I edited and revised 3 times and there are still typos and some grammar errors in the finished product. I'm going to fix them, but I want to let the book get shipped out to the major retailers first. Then I'll revise again and the retailers will get an updated version on the next ship date... All the system does is tell you if there are any formatting problems and then you fix them. Things like there can't be text boxes, and the paragraph styles can't switch from "traditional" to "block" style from section to section. Some formatting errors get through though. In the first upload, some of my paragraphs were indented correctly, but then for some reason almost all of them were indented by a single space only. I didn't notice until I read the book on my nook... Then I revised and re-published... Stuff like what you are describing would be considered "creative license" I think. Like my writing style. All speech is in the present tense normal font, but the character's thoughts are italicized and in the past tense. | ||||
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