Writing Creative Fiction: What People Want!

Writing Creative Fiction

If you’re a writer, you've probably asked yourself ‘how do I get a novel published,’ about a million times.  Although getting published the traditional route is still highly difficult, the internet has made it a lot easier to publish yourself. Self-publishing is a great option for those having difficulty going the traditional route.  The ease publishing, however, just makes the difficulty of self-marketing that much harder.

So ‘how do you get a novel published’ these days anyhow?  Well, if you’re not opposed to the self-published route Amazon is probably the largest platform to sell your digital book to the masses.  If you’re looking to self-publish Amazon does a great job explaining the process.

Write books, edit books, and publish books these are a writer’s goals.  Getting to this destination, however, can be reached by a number of different routes, the best route is always whatever is the ‘best route for you.’ Bearing this in mind, self publishing will provide every writer with a greater deal of control than they otherwise would have if they published their books the more traditional route. However, self-publishing comes with the burden of having to develop a stronger personal marketing approach, and that can be tricky.

Becoming a Successful Author Online!

Moreover, if you are looking to be one of the next bestselling authors in literature, you might find publishing online to be a slow route to sales.  It seems that most of the $0.99 books that are sold on Amazon are pop culture books, books that one would be hard pressed to define as literature.

Getting your novel published is a very important step, but in the self-publishing arena it’s just as important for you to MARKET your book, and this can prove to be a daunting feat.  Attempting to market and advertise online is like trying to get a discount at the DMV, it’s nearly impossible.

If you’re a first time author and you’re looking to sell your work, instead of writing for writers you need to be writing for readers.  This means you need to decide early on who the audience is that you are reaching out to.  Instead of trying to write America’s next greatest novel you need to do your research and find out what type of books are selling in the market you are trying to enter.  Unfortunately, when you do this you’ll probably have to lower the quality of your writing to be noticed but you'll still have to spend a great deal of time editing.  If you're a first time author, what are some of the biggest hurdles you've had to face?