Hello all, Happy Feb 1st. I been reading on the craft of writing, really, people are calling it an art. There's a lot to learn. Who knew that just writing your story was the first part, then you got your editing, which is about 3-4 parts, depending on how long your story is. Then you have your beta readers, if you can find any. After your beta readers told you how much your story sucks(kidding) and how to improve it. Then you start your rewriting or improvement on your story, and then you're still not finish you run your story through the spelling and grammar checkers system(Grammarly). After all that, you might be finished then. And all it took you to finish was about one to two years of your free time. Some writers don't finish at all.
What I'm getting at is that I always read where the writer needs a backlog of books, say 5 or more. Because once he puts his book out there to sell. The readers of his book might want to read some more of his books. If he's only written one, there is no more, and you might lose readers that way. So, I've read. That's why you need a backlog of 5 or more books, short stories, or novellas included. So, you won't lose readers who like your stories. I'm at that stage now, building my backlog for 2026. Let me tell you it ain't easy. I have stuff that needs to be edited, and I have ideas that need to be written. To be honest, my editing process of a story, even if it's a short story under 2500 words, is pretty slow. So you can write stories is more of a hobby for me. What about you?
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