So You Want To Write A Novel?
It’s Friday, so I thought I’d veer off the beaten path a little bit.
I absolutely love this video a friend sent me the other day. It’s clever, hilarious, truthful.
Getting anything published, both fiction and nonfiction, takes A LOT of work. It’s not just a matter of calling up a publisher or blindly sending in a manuscript. You’ve got to do a lot of homework on the front end.
Even though I live in the nonfiction world, I see this same type of thing all the time. If you’ve ever wanted to write a book, please watch this funny video and you’ll learn everything NOT to do.
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Love it! I saw this a while back (it was floating around Twitter), and I couldn’t help but chuckle. As someone who’s written a novel, there’s a lot of truth to it.
Hey Jen. Absolutely. Didn’t know you had a written a novel. I’ll have to put it on my list of books to read after I get through the next 87 on this list!
Thanks for checking out the blog.
No problem! Good blog.
I’m not published yet but working on it. I’m querying agents now.
That’s awesome. I think I’ll watch it at least once a month for a reality check.
This is hilarious!
Hi there,
I wrote the video, and I wanted to thank you for posting it on your blog. REally glad you and the other commenters liked it!
David Kazzie
Great video, David. It’s spot on and really funny.
Thanks for stopping by.
That is a great little video and so true. My last boss thought that articles for her magazine could be written in five minutes. And why was I bothering to interview people, that was just a time waster.
Sorry, got a little bitter there for a moment.
That video cracked me up but good. Absolute gold.
Funny! So this is my takeaway…to write a Novel, one must disregard every hurdle and basically do everything that goes against one’s better instincts. I’m hooked!
“I’m a student of the human condition.”
Graphomania at its absolutely most hilariously worst!
Thanks for posting this.
Totally frickin’ awesome! (And no, I did not just write frickin’, or start this sentence with a conjunction. I would never do that. Because I am a writer.)
Jodi
I loved this, so true.
Loved this video! It was funny and true … thanks for the laugh!
I can’t believe I haven’t found this blog already. I love to read and write, this is truly a treasure chest of information thanks!
Thanks Jake. Glad you are enjoying it and hope you’ll stick around.
Great video, brings back memories lol.
slap! slap! kick! run!
… that was horribly funny, and … many other things.
That was just… Hilarious.
Writing and getting one’s novel published is a wonderful dream accomplished! Just like any dream, the dreamer needs to be persistent- correct; but also needs a strategy to achieve his dreams by making the dream a goal- one step at a time.