Thursday writery.

[jolantru]

Woke up, today, with a story title in mind! In the dream, I was combing through bargain-bin sff books. I saw some by Nix Williams. One book caught my eye, though it cost about 3.10 (SGD). The Adventures of Flair. It's a tale about a young dragon, set in a steampunk world. One book cover had a red dragon acting as a bi-plane. Hehe.

Writery stuff. Well, I am still debating whether I should go the traditional publishing route or not. Or that I would keep beating my metaphorical head against the windowpane (or desk). The market here in Singapore is severely limited. Not sure even how overseas publishers would take to my stories. They seem quite US-centric.

EDIT:
Thoughts on my current tale:
The main character has a Navajo boyfriend. She herself is Chinese (I keep seeing Eurasian though, in my mind - I mean, it's the future!). However, boyfriend is more fleshed-out than she is. She is a girl who can't figure herself out and is confused. She is slowly coming into herself, as a person. In short, she is growing up!

Comments

[delfinnium]

It might! the only thing is needing readers. >.>

[jolantru]

That's the main things writers worry about. Readers, audiences.

[delfinnium]

ah, well, if you advertised like how Verb-Noire did, it's possible. But what I meant was readers to edit and choose books to be published, just like how Semaphore Mag does it- they do it for free, which is why the pay off is so low.

[jolantru]

Mmmm.

*ponders*

[delfinnium]

Yeah. >.>

<.<

It'd be worth it, I think, if it's ASEAN

[jolantru]

Mmmm. I am thinking: start small and then work way up to ASEAN level. ;)

[delfinnium]

Haaaa. :P Small is good. I've been talking to my friend about it, and well, I think that there ARE writers/artists in Singapore, we're just told that there are no one interested, no one who wants to read our work, that we just give up.

Yet, Wee Tian Beng managed to become a really good mangaka. AND he started his own, manga too. Granted, it's Chinese-based fantasy, but for once it's made by a blatantly Singaporean Artist who has pretty good fame, so...

It's possible. Start small, do mags, maybe sell the PDFs for a small fee, that sort of thing.

[jolantru]

*nods* I personally know a handful. There ARE writers and artists. There is Janei Chui who does great art. She is known as marrael on LJ. Another one is madscuzzy who is mostly Warhammer 40K and he does fantastic art. To name a few...

I am thinking something along the lines of a zine (print) or even online... Going the e-book way sounds good.

[delfinnium]

Yup. Online zines - like the semaphore press, like pay for the print version, pdfs free, e-book small fee, or something. Or the work is readable online but pdfs cost. Or something. Something to whet people's appetite.

[jolantru]

Verb Noire does the e-book way. Downloadable pdfs with a small fee. Mmm.

Much thinkery for this.

(Going back to bed - baby kicking me awake)

[delfinnium]

hmm. onlines might be good, because people have a computer and all... though you know how it is, not exactly easy or cheap to get printed stuff for free unless you're a Uni student...

So maybe online stuff is small fee, and papery form is more expensive? Dunno.

[jolantru]

Online stuff sounds more workable...