Is it true that people want terrible things to maybe happen to characters in novels? I have not written a novel because I prefer writing screenplays, which should almost always end up with some sense of hitting the compass at the "happy ending" point. I'd like to try novel writing, but I get the sense that I would want to follow the same dramatic structure of a script.
As someone who's waiting ... waiting ... waiting ... on submissions of his second novel (first novel is in a drawer sleeping), what you say is reassuring, particularly the bit about putting it on Wattpad, and then later publishing it as an ebook. Maybe the way to go.
I’ve read Lillian’s Spell Book (gold star me!)
All good points…will use as I revise a novel that hasn’t yet been appreciated by the masses (or any editor :)
I gave up waiting and am now serialisng my first novel whilst writing my second (to create the start of a series).
Is it true that people want terrible things to maybe happen to characters in novels? I have not written a novel because I prefer writing screenplays, which should almost always end up with some sense of hitting the compass at the "happy ending" point. I'd like to try novel writing, but I get the sense that I would want to follow the same dramatic structure of a script.
As someone who's waiting ... waiting ... waiting ... on submissions of his second novel (first novel is in a drawer sleeping), what you say is reassuring, particularly the bit about putting it on Wattpad, and then later publishing it as an ebook. Maybe the way to go.
Nice reading. Lotta trip wires out there
Hard-earned experience, and not at all bitter. Hence, I guess, the positive sharing of advice.