How do I make money off a novel?

Interesting. I'll look into that.

Decent idea.

So if I self-publish it there, it can still be picked up by Penguin, for example?

Cool, thanks.

The story takes place in the current year in a big city. No fantasy stuff.

It was the best of times, it was the worst times.

i cant help u mate but can u tell me your way of working? how did u motivate urself, how did you continue when u were at a block (story wise) and stuff like that? i want to become a writer but i am struck by the modern disease of having no discipline

Post it here, I'll help u decide senpai

t. Publisher

yup, we need a sample chapter, at least

>So if I self-publish it there, it can still be picked up by Penguin, for example?
You misread that. I heard publishers won't touch something already published in some form.
I think the first step is finding an agent who can sell your novel to a publisher. Costs you nothing.

Good job OP. I'm just now getting started on my novel. Working on the plot outline. My dream is to make it in crypto and be free to write the kind of novels i want without worrying about having to make money from it

Did you study lit or creative writing?

you don't. why do you ever think you would?

I'm a full time writer (communications, content marketing, B2B) and I hate writing fiction, it's arduous. Well done OP, would like to read a bit.

Sure.

I started writing down random thoughts, scenes, characters, and stories when I was in college. Eventually I was able to put some parts together and I realized that I was working on a book, even though I didn't have the intention to write one. It just kinda happened.

At that point I made the decision to finish it. I wrote every single day for a little over a year. No exceptions or excuses, even on the day my grandmother passed away I got a couple of sentences down. Sometimes I'd write one word on one day, sometimes I'd write ten pages in an evening. The amount didn't matter, as long as I did something every day. That really was the key to getting the first draft done.

I didn't have a storyline in my head, I just wrote whatever came next. The first draft was almost 200.000 words. I spent several years on and off cutting that down and refining it. Currently it's at around 130.000 words, which is still a lot, but at least it is not ridiculous. The whole thing is better because of the fat being cut off. I'm currently working really hard to remove wordiness, passive voice, and unnecessary characters and plot-lines. I want to re-write it until I cannot make it better anymore. One big lesson I've learned is that the hardest, most important, and most time consuming part of writing, is re-writing. It's been a rewarding experience, though. I get a kick out of it every time I sit down and work on it, and I can't wait to finish it.

TLDR how-to: create a new Word document and open it every day to add something to it. No excuses ever. Every. Single. Day... even if it's one sentence. It keeps the motor running.

Good luck, and fair warning: once you've decided you're really going to do this, you're in all the way. I can't not do it anymore.

Scrivener is an absolutely amazing tool that helps me organize things. I highly recommend it if you plan to start writing, too.

And make sure to make backups of your work like your life depends on it.