SaulAHerman
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I love Brandon's books, got Mistborn trilogy, way of kings books 1 and 2 and Elantris and Warbreaker in 2014, that's when I got into his writing. This was after a college buddy of mine told me like 20 authors I never heard of. I then got all kinds of author's books, but this author kept me enraptured by his story telling. I wanted to write like him.
Once I found his online YouTube courses I self taught myself how to try to emulate his style, with my own version of the Cosomere, a metaverse, a multitude of multiverses in which characters overlap and interact through quantum jumping through a "fourth dimensional rift in space and time" in which all multiverses meet.
So far in my notes I have around 5 multiverses, not as much in scope as Brandon's world but after 10 years of building my characters and world on my own, I had a collection of burnout stories, so I decided to combine them- take earlier pieces of my writing, revamp it and set it as another universe like in marvel and dc comics- any thoughts on what kind of success anyone trying to emulate Brandon on any success level. I still am unpublished, perhaps telling literary agents about how big my word count was, around 330,000 words a while ago with the hopes of turning it into like 10 to 23 novels, might have scared them off.
I don't know how to write a good query letter, i have 5 books, each around 150, to 170,000 words making it in total 750,000 after recompiling and adding even more words during the editing process. I don't know how to fix it and I need to make 30 posts before I can share my stuff with a 1500 word limit and only then ask for others to read my stuff on here through beta readers or alpha readers. I have no real friends now at this point cause of covid, i write in solitude. but can't spam, so I don't know what to do because I don't want to get banned from spamming or ruining my reputation before it even begins, so far I have 3 posts on here to random threads, no one responded so maybe I'm doing this wrong
Edit: Thanks for the advice Matthew.... I just write walls of text to get my words out.
I edit differently on Microsoft word.
I just don't know how to write on forums.
I am a newbie on social messaging boards.
I never really put myself out there.
I wouldn't write online anything because I would be afraid of how online social interaction might affect my own personal inflections, well being and personal health. IE whatever cyber bullying is or hate conflicts - I just easily get offended even though I am a millennial and not a teenager, I still haven't mentally grown up- rather I never wanted to
Edit 2: what I really want is just support through this crisis- something to help me keep on writing- when the end game of getting published seems so far away.
I tried to get 3 publishers and tried 2 literary agents.
I just don't know the official "right" way of presenting myself based on my asocial tendencies and how I react to the world around me.
I don't want to officially spell it out that I have a mental delay in my cognitive functions- how I respond/ with autism/ versus how I respond with people in the real world.
Once I found his online YouTube courses I self taught myself how to try to emulate his style, with my own version of the Cosomere, a metaverse, a multitude of multiverses in which characters overlap and interact through quantum jumping through a "fourth dimensional rift in space and time" in which all multiverses meet.
So far in my notes I have around 5 multiverses, not as much in scope as Brandon's world but after 10 years of building my characters and world on my own, I had a collection of burnout stories, so I decided to combine them- take earlier pieces of my writing, revamp it and set it as another universe like in marvel and dc comics- any thoughts on what kind of success anyone trying to emulate Brandon on any success level. I still am unpublished, perhaps telling literary agents about how big my word count was, around 330,000 words a while ago with the hopes of turning it into like 10 to 23 novels, might have scared them off.
I don't know how to write a good query letter, i have 5 books, each around 150, to 170,000 words making it in total 750,000 after recompiling and adding even more words during the editing process. I don't know how to fix it and I need to make 30 posts before I can share my stuff with a 1500 word limit and only then ask for others to read my stuff on here through beta readers or alpha readers. I have no real friends now at this point cause of covid, i write in solitude. but can't spam, so I don't know what to do because I don't want to get banned from spamming or ruining my reputation before it even begins, so far I have 3 posts on here to random threads, no one responded so maybe I'm doing this wrong
Edit: Thanks for the advice Matthew.... I just write walls of text to get my words out.
I edit differently on Microsoft word.
I just don't know how to write on forums.
I am a newbie on social messaging boards.
I never really put myself out there.
I wouldn't write online anything because I would be afraid of how online social interaction might affect my own personal inflections, well being and personal health. IE whatever cyber bullying is or hate conflicts - I just easily get offended even though I am a millennial and not a teenager, I still haven't mentally grown up- rather I never wanted to
Edit 2: what I really want is just support through this crisis- something to help me keep on writing- when the end game of getting published seems so far away.
I tried to get 3 publishers and tried 2 literary agents.
I just don't know the official "right" way of presenting myself based on my asocial tendencies and how I react to the world around me.
I don't want to officially spell it out that I have a mental delay in my cognitive functions- how I respond/ with autism/ versus how I respond with people in the real world.
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