Building Bridges, Burning Bridges - Page 2

On January 25 2009 09:24 fanatacist wrote:
If you are going to make a book out of this, best of luck. You have good stories to write about and I would definitely read it, but you need a lot of editting/revising to make it marketable.

EDIT: I mean in terms of grammar/speech (LOL, WTF are not going to appeal to the larger book-reading audience, I think. Although, you could have a glossary or whatever to make it more open to people who aren't that into internet-speak, which isn't that many people nowadays anyways...). Otherwise, I like your flow and manner of writing, although it seems at times like your mastery of English is diluted. More analogies like the 6 year old girl in the prairie would be cool, it'd make it more of a theme than a once-in-a-while thing.

On January 25 2009 09:43 fanatacist wrote:

For a rough draft this is all very interesting and you definitely have the basis/material to make a marketable book.

I'm thinking that the same audience that you would appeal to is the audience that authors like Tucker Max and Maddox direct their writing to. Since that's the case, I think you should get publicity first by starting a website similar to Tucker Max's as a sort of blog where you release stories once in a while with forums for conversation and input and etc., where you could also include a mini-biography or whatnot. This would expand your publicity, your marketable audience, and probably build hype once you publicly announce your book there. That way you will probably be releasing the book at a later date but with more possible revenue and thus will be more likely to get published by a good publisher as opposed to some shitty local publisher which won't give you the royalties, publicity, and hype you need. TL is a good starting point but I think you need to go bigger to really have a good foundation for a publication.

On January 25 2009 09:48 Loanshark wrote:
So have you decided on a title for your book?
Or is it just gonna be Tales from the Hood?

On January 25 2009 10:21 HamerD wrote:
The reason your blogs are interesting imo is that you describe everything in the sort of way that most of our minds would absorb the information as we were getting it, if we were in your shoes. If you had a more intellectual and reserved style of writing, it would be boring.