The painful process of publishing has been completed through Amazon Direct Publishing, and now Nearly Free is up for sale!
The publishing process was as follows: 1. I moved the draft of the book from google docs to Microsoft Word. Once it was in Word, I spent a while editing the format to make sure it would be able to transfer into book form. I also took the opportunity to take care of last minute spelling and grammar edits. 2. I then began the process of moving the Word document and the cover picture to the Amazon Direct Publishing site. This set up the book format completely and showed me how it would appear as a final preview. 4. After organizing the book format to my liking, I submitted the final copy for review from Amazon. 5. A couple days later, I got the notification that my book was up for sale on Amazon! You may notice that I skipped step 3. That's because step 3 was just being extremely frustrated at the process. When you begin this process, they don't tell you how painfully long it takes to upload your writing and cover to the publishing website. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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I've completed the writing segment of my project. I am not working on editing what is there, and placing the completed writing into book formatting to publish.
When I began the writing process, I started with the first scene. After creating a start to my character's story that I believe sets the stage for how he will develop, I wrote the very last scene. I wanted to know where my character was starting, and also having an ending which I knew he was going to lead me to eventually. I chose this strategy because once my character had a background and an ending, I began to watch his story unfold as I wrote what I think he would do. It's about letting the character write the story, and me just being along for the ride.
After brainstorming basic ideas for scenes which I wanted to include, I decided to start a journal and elaborate/take notes on each idea to further develop a picture of what I saw the scene turning into.
A huge part of writing historical fiction is researching historical fact. This is so it can be included in the story and create a realistic story for what could have happened with your characters in that time. For my story, it was helpful to research life in New York and Ireland in the 1800's, including clothing, politics, and events which I could throw my characters into.
To begin the process of mapping out my story, I recruited the help of a story board. I started writing ideas on sticky notes, and then lining up those sticky notes on a large poster board.
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