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Finding time... Scraping together little patches of time to write in between all the important stuff of life like my family, work, eating and sleeping! That's the hard bit that I hate...:eek:

Whoah! :eek: I can't say I've EVER seen anything like this before. It's very striking writing, but... and here's the big but, if this is all supposed to be REAL, I mean the scriptiures to your religion, then why post it on a FICTION site? I need to write some fictional scripture for my...

A modest income... Yes, I sell my own short (and micro) stories plus a few that other authors have contributed to my site. I've put six titles up there to see how they go and although it's not enough to pay the mortgage, it's enough to do GREAT things for the ego and to give me the inspiration...

Just following up.... Just following up on this, I've had six titles up on Mobipocket for about a month now and although I'm not going to bother people with the boring details of how MUCH; they've actually generated quite an interesting little pocketfull of money for me. The process of...

Me too... Yeah, I write. Sci-Fi and Dark. And like most, I lament that I don't do enough of it. Writing now fills in the cracks in my life that are taken up by the 'good and proper' things like the kids and wife, WORK(boo) and of course sleep (always the last on the list). If asked if I'm...

Manuscriptx, walk me through this one line by line, I can kind of understand some of it, but really I don't get it. Help me to share your vision! I'm getting the feeling that the speaker in this one feels isolated and excluded. I think he "thinks" that he's being aloof with the "if I wanted...

So, does Dumbedore have a Horcrux? ...and does Snape keep it safe for him? Perhaps Dumbledore had to kill someone to defend Snape during his edit from the Death Eaters. To prevent the death being a waste, Dumbledore used the unfortunate incident to create a Horcrux. This would explain why...

I have it on good authority that the book IS out on 7-7-7 (Kinda got some connections with connected with the whole Potter thing)

I think it's wrong to knock authors like Dan Brown. He's a "successful author" by his own definition of "success" I should imagine. Just as your own personal definition of "success" is your own. Personally, I enjoyed the gentle escapism of his most famous novel (I don't dare speak it's name...

Thanks for the comments... Thanks for the comments so far. Yes, I deliberately over-described this one. I wanted to luxuriate in the wordiness to create a kind of languid atmosphere that almost comes across as erotic at the beginning, to try to create a voyeristic guilt in the reader when at...

Are Lulu THAT bad? I've been using Lulu for a couple of years for photos as well as ebooks and made a little money. I've just put up a paperback and will be relying on internet sales either through Lulu or links to the Lulu product direct through my website (I wrote my own ecommerce software...

Against cruelty to books I don't like to lend my books to anyone because they come back with someone ELSE'S creases in the cover, dog-ears, tears, coffee stains. I don't get upset if MY book that I'm reading gets a little damaged, the book develops it's own character while I'm reading it, while...

Just spent an EVENING reading this thread... No, it seems to me that he would cook the burgers declare that none should eat them! Actually, has anyone actually considered that he may in fact be of Vogon origin? Look again at the original 'poem' it's a dead giveaway.

Something I wrote whilst in a sombre mood. It worked well to purge the darkness from my soul. LIGHT AND DARK By Andy Severn Golden light burned the air through curtains gently parted by the warm breeze. Now still, the thick pink material held the bedroom in a dark gloom lit only by the...

Well, in the book I'm writing, most of the conflict comes from the realisation that the organised religeon of the people on the planet has been covering up some dirty secret, so I'll add: Religeous conflict fear of conspiricy / paranoia

Ok, at the risk of being burned at the stake for self-pubicity... ;) Go to www.sci-fi-cafe.com and grab the DOC version of the free book 'Pi-R-Us'. I've recenty updated all the DOC formats of the books there to something like the printable format used for Pocket Book size on LULU...

I think that LULU.COM have one that they offer. It's got all the gutter and edges set up. I use my own template now for publishing for paperback, mobile and WORD and it's taken me ages to get to the point where I like it. I guess everyone finds their own style. I took some time to actually...

I can't work in absolute silence, it drives me crazy. having said that, noise is a distraction too. I don't like to write with the TV on or when the kids are playing nearby. A little background noise just takes the edge off things. I usually log onto pandora.com and select my Tangerine Dream...

I've just tried publishing a load of my work on Mobipocket, they look like a well set up company etc, but I have just heard from someone that they really don't rate Mobipocket at all - in fact they pretty much flamed them. Has anyone else had any good or bad experiences with them? Andy

Hello everyone. It's nice to be in the company of so many fellow budding writers and avid readers. I'm currenty having loads of fun writing short and MICRO sci-fi stories and just as much fun pubishing them through my website I've now been TOTALLY bitten by the pubishing bug, particularly...