Post by SciFive on Jun 28, 2017 10:36:31 GMT
Jun 28, 2017 10:27:53 GMT @zieveraar said:
Nice! How many books do you have at Amazon?I'm not at that point yet, only managed to get some short stories (under 11.000) published. I'm not sure if I'll ever get a full novel, it's also not something that I am aiming for anymore. Just write the ideas I have, no matter the length, get some mileage under my belt, improve my writing.
I tend to focus more on the human aspect of SF, as I'm in no way a scientist
I've always loved reading SF though, so I'm writing it too. I can imagine that having a scientific background/education/job can only be helpful. Definitely with indeed thinking up new technology, which is still an important part of SF. Asimov was quite the scientist himself. I wrote short stories in college and I won an award for them, but I've been puttering around ever since. It's only been in the last couple of years that I decided to push myself to start publishing my stories (since I was already doing it for other people on Amazon). Once I was very familiar with the publishing process on Amazon, I decided that there was no excuse not to publish my own.
If you are writing but not sure that you can go the distance of a full novel, I'd really recommend trying short fiction. Even a small novel, novella or novelette is a reasonable goal for someone with a good story idea. In my experience out of college, short stories seem a bit too short for me - but I love novellas and novelettes. You can really wrap yourself around a novelette in a reasonable amount of time.
I'd recommend reading craft books, though. As many as you can handle. I read them all the time and my writing has really matured a lot since going through so many writing craft books.
I like the ones by James Scott Bell, but I've got other ones, too. James Scott Bell's writing craft books have helped me the most (especially with the structure of a story - he has an incredible explanation about this).
Good luck!!