Buffy ,'Empty Places'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
I have a friend who's a YA writer. She writes a book a year and doesn't expect them to be published until at least two years after she submits a completed manuscript. It does seem a lengthy process.
Congrats on the feedback, Allyson - that sounds amazing.
Yeah, I already heard that the earliest the first book of mine will be published is spring 2011, more likely fall.
Thanks so much for that, Barb, you've answered a ton of questions. I'm submitting a completed manuscript, so at least there's that. Non-fic does seem to be a completely different animal (am I the only non-fic writer in great write?) and it was about a year from sale to published with a 3/4 complete manuscript. And i was constantly told to not expect much out of non-fic. Essays seem to be next to poetry in sales, but I always look at stuff like Sedaris and Vowell and think, "I CAN DO THAT I SWEAR!"
And then I come down from the craxy.
This was hugely difficult. I am just in awe in all of you who write fiction. It's so fucking hard.
It's not easy, but it can be fun!
I've written essays before and loved it, but factual non-fiction makes me shudder in fear. Actually having to know what you're talking about? And back it up with research? No way, dude.
I like to make stuff up.
am I the only non-fic writer in great write?
You are not, but you are the only PUBLISHED non-fiction writer. Suggestions always welcome.
Serendipity!
And back it up with research?
Aside from the talking bat thing, I got to immerse myself in quite a bit of bat research, spoke with a bat rescue in the UK, ask questions of bat researchers, and tons of videos of my species in flight. It helped get me through it, to try and imagine my own self as a bat, which is probably screwed up.
This was hugely difficult. I am just in awe in all of you who write fiction. It's so fucking hard.
Yeah, fiction still intimidates me like crazy.
You are not, but you are the only PUBLISHED non-fiction writer.
Not true -- there's Jilli! And Hec, although he doesn't come in here.
Holy shit, how did I completely braindaze that?
Me too. Hec, Jilli sorry both have done awesome non-fiction.