Career questions tagged fiction-author
How not to make an army of "me" for Original characters?
Sometimes in English class, I have to do a prompt with specific needs (vocabulary, setting, etc.). I like to use my characters to act out the scene, but I've noticed recently the characters personalities are not acting how they were supposed to be. I know they say to let your characters take the lead, but they all end up reflecting my personality. For example: I have a set of twin characters, and they were supposed to be iconic opposites. One was named Kiho. He was supposed to be shy and friendly, but in my recent skits he's been morphing into my personality, (snappy, feels the need to be independent, cold.) My characters get into frequent arguments, and it's very strange for some of them because they weren't supposed to be like that. They're all becoming cold and mean, and even I don't really know how to be sweet or nice much. I don't have many friends (separate topic, not important) so I can't get any POV. I still haven't been able to understand other kinds of personalities yet, and I just don't want to be stereotypical. How do I fix them to not be me?
Can I be a self distributing author?
What are the requirements to be a self distributing author. Everyone so far has been going the Amazon or lulu route. I want to build my own website and sell my book via my own website. I want to be able to buy my book in bulk (which I have not figured out yet) I want to be able to package and distribute. So I get all the profit. I control all of the marketing and my book can feel like my own. is this a good idea?
How do I get better at intricate writing?
I have been wanting to be an author since I could read and have always been a bookworm and admired other authors for their intricate and insightful words. I want to inspire people all around the world, not just in English but in other languages to.
How can I make a good profit by doing something in the english category, that isn’t teaching?
How can I make a good profit by doing something in the english, book region of things. I am in 10th grade, and I have heard from teachers that becoming an author is not a good idea, (What I was wanting to do) because you won’t make enough money to live unless you books hits bestsellers. So is there anything I could do in the realm of english, (that isn’t teaching!) that could give me a good profit and stay in the parts of things I would like to do.
Where do you get your inspiration when you are out of ideas?
When writer's block hits, what do you do to combat that? I find that oftentimes when I am writing, I'll run out of ideas for my story, abandon it, and start something new, only for the cycle to begin all over again.