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How do I write a financially successful novel, /lit/
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▶ No.12524
Spend a minute copy pasting a word and sell the work for a dollar to your're mom.
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▶ No.12536
>>12523 (OP)
become a literary whore
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▶ No.12579>>12586
Write genre fiction. Especially romance. SciFi is popular too. Also, young adult fiction.
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▶ No.12586
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▶ No.12598>>12603
There isn't anything magical about being a writer that makes it more difficult to make it a financially successful career (besides the number of people trying to break into it). The main thing is that a lot of people don't know how to cater to an audience. You see this complaint a lot when they do interviews with video game developers. You can write a cult classic that's really good and appeals to a lot of people, but you're not going to get J.K. Rowling famous without good marketing, a good agent, social skills, and the knowledge of how to tug at *just* the right heartstrings.
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▶ No.12603
>>12598
An interview doesn't have the time to go into specifics. I'd rather see a commentary go through the game level by level (or scene by scene in a movie), or a diary picking out what seems significant as it happens.
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▶ No.13341>>13393
>>12523 (OP)
Write for 13-year-olds and sell it for 30-year-olds
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▶ No.13346
Don't write a novel, write the next Homestuck.
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▶ No.13393>>13394 >>13479
>>13341
That wouldn't work, the only reason Harry Potter had such a large adult fanbase was because the book series spanned on for about 10 years , meaning someone who was in middle school when Sorcerer's Stone came out was on his way to college by the time Deathly Hallows was out. Also, nostalgia.
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▶ No.13394
>>13393
If you mixed together the most popular ideas, characters and tropes and shamelessly pandered to the SJW/regressive crowd and played nostalgia, you could probably pull off the 13 for 30 ploy.
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▶ No.13479
>>13393
>Sorcerer's Stone
get out
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