So, what are your plans?

To get published, that is. If you have no intention to one day go mainstream and perhaps get a shot for that best-seller list, never mind - maybe this thread will change your mind?

Getting legitimately published is difficult business. First you need to have a complete piece of work. Then you need the money and the patience to seek an editor and a publishing agent. Then you'll need to revise your worth to the nth time. After all those year, only with a bit of luck would you be able to churn out a book in print. And even then, you'll need plenty of readers' support to take off.

So, with that difficult journey, has anyone gotten a detailed plan as to how they are going to take it on? If yes, care to share with us all?

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I thought I would finish my work first, but after that I'm not sure if I will et an agent or free lance it.

I know I will get rejection letters. I plan to frame them.

edited 23rd Aug '11 8:28:15 AM by TheEmeraldDragon

I am a nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore, I am perfect.

When I began writing, I hoped to get published, but now, I just write for fun. I finished writing my first novel last year, and in between school and work, I proofread (never proofread your own stuff though), re-drafted and finalized it. I designed the cover and whatnot, and now, I'm getting ready to sell it.

I'm going the independent route because there's no cost to get the books made, I'm not stuck with any inventory if I don't sell anything, and it's just less stressful this way. I can make my own decisions and write the way I want to.

The book will be on sale probably next month, but digital versions will be free from my blog. I'm already working on the second one in the planned four-book saga. I'm just having fun with it.

(屮≖益≖)屮 彡 ┻━┻ F*ck yo' table; Go read my book! —> http://goo.gl/mtXkm

Well... I'm actually in the process of making my story into a webcomic. I found an author and script-writer already, and we're working the kinks out.

—sigh—

I'd like to get published by Dark Horse, I suppose.

Read my stories!

Write a good story, write a good query, write a better query, write an amazing query, submit to publishers, edit a good story, edit a better story, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, edit an amazing story, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, get rejected, die of unrelated causes.

I dunno. Finishing first would be nice. After that, I'll throw stuff at the wall (read: the publishing business) until it sticks.

Perhaps I'll try e-books publishing. It sounds easier to do, and I get to jump on the 21st Century bandwagon of the future!!!

I am now known as Flyboy.

I am just practicing to ge an awesome story teller (writing and comics). I don't mind publishing as I stufy law and I want to afford my publishing my self :)

I don't do this for the money so I wouldn't mind spending some money for it.

edited 23rd Aug '11 10:55:57 AM by FallenLegend

Make your hearth shine through the darkest night; let it transform hate into kindness, evil into justice, and loneliness into love.

He's basically got the sequence of events down, I'll give him that.

Professional published? No interest in it.

Nous restons ici.

Eh, writing was never part of my plans for making a living, so it doesn't bother me all that much if I never get published.

That said, I'll still probably submit it to a publisher eventually. For shits and giggles.

Look, you can't make me speak in a logical, coherent, intelligent bananna.

I'm currently in the "Get rejected" stage! I've actually been submitting to agents for a while now; since about the beginning of this year. (My new year's resolution was basically to cut it out with the wistful sighing while roaming though book stores and actually knuckle down into doing submissions.) I'm slowly but surely working my way through Agentquery.com's list of agents for YA and fantasy fiction.

It's basically all crossing my fingers at this point. But I wouldn't be the first person in my family to pull it off, so I'm gonna keep on keepin' on.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

What Oh So Into Cats said.

I have... a lot of rejection letters. Still going at it though.

It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird

I plan to try the sci-fi short story magazines. Still haven't figured out which ones, though—I figure I ought to start somewhere less-than-prestigious, then work my way up to places like Analog.

edited 23rd Aug '11 5:27:59 PM by feotakahari

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

My goal is to publish a novel, preferably several novels, but that's a few years off— I still need to finish one, first. My short-term goal is to finish a short story I've been putting off for six months so it'll be ready for a local contest in November. My shortest-term goal is to write a blog on writing, which is what I've been spending this week doing.

Thanks for the all fish!

my goal is simply to write my stories down and deposit them somewhere in the deepest canals of the net and forget i ever wrote them.

or you know, make money off of them, but im not holding my breath on that.

I'm aiming for the New York Best-Seller list. As I always say, it doesn't hurt to aim high. I'm sure I'll make it when I'm about...thirty-five or so. But that's about twenty years or so, with a margin of error of no more than four.

My highest, most absurd ambition...?

An accurate, well-made Animated Adaption of my main work.

My sane ambitions?

Just get this thing off the ground, get it published, maybe gain my work an itty-bitty fanbase that manages to avoid fan jackassery through sheer obscurity...

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

yeah that's me too.

Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka fics

I've already sent two different stories to a combined five magazines and got rejected by all. I have one more open submission and yesterday I sent a new one.

My plan? Keep writing and hope someone picks up eventually. I've got only a few more weeks of summer left, so I'm going to spend them continuing my story and hoping for readers. If all pans out, I'll start making submissions come fall.

If anyone's interested, here's Izumi Ibara: my longest-running series so far.

With blood and rage of crimson red ripped from a corpse so freshly dead together with our hellish hate we'll burn you all that is your fate

I like the idea of my work being respected but obscure. It seems more dignified and earnest than actual fame, and tends to have greater longevity.

edited 23rd Aug '11 8:05:25 PM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

If all goes according to plan *

, I get published for the first time in about three years. Then I continue to get published every one or two years, until I have about 20-30 books published. Then I die in a blaze of glory defending the innocent from fascism/communism/autocracy/space aliens, and other authors continue to write in my continuity, creating a full mythos, a la Cthulhu.

And then there are statues built of me, where my arms move and my eyes light up, and when the last vestige of Democracy dies, my statues all inexplicably fly off into space, simultaneously.

Still Sheepin'

Your plan is so much better than mine.

My fanbase consists of like four people. But at least I can say they exist! And I've even got a Fan-Preferred Couple, if two out of four people counts as "preferred." And one of 'em told me they want me to get a proper fanbase so they have people to geek out with.

Which is a pretty nice compliment.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

One of my friends declared one of my unwritten scenes a Crowning Moment Of Awesome.

Which was kind of cool.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

Dream: Get published. Get heralded as the next big thing, on the New York Times list get movie offers. End up shunning publicity a la J. D. Salinger and Harper Lee. Die in seclusion as my books have been horrible distorted by Moral Guardians.

Dark and Edgy Reality: Send in book, get rejected (rinse and repeat). Write in my spare time as I have to work to stay afloat. Show it to a few people who say it's okay. Continue writing in the hopes I can make a living off of it. Die in seclusion.