So you want to become a fiction writer?

in #writing7 years ago (edited)

Before I arrived at Steemit I often had ideas for stories, but never sat down and actually put key to screen, or pen to paper. Within a few weeks here I decided to have a stab at it. These posts were ok but lacked something. My point of view was all wrong, my tenses mixed up, and my grammar wasn't up to par.

Meanwhile, I joined the #minnowsupportproject and soon became a moderator there. I was overjoyed when I met the lovely @rhondak at PALnet. You see, among her other great qualities she is a published author and knows her way around a story. She is also a brilliant editor. She put this to good use by creating the #fiction-workshop channel and was soon joined by friend and mentor @carolkean - author and editor at Perihelion Science Fiction. The channel has since attracted many more writers - some requiring critique, others happy to help flesh out stories, suggest edits, etc. It has grown into a great community and a resource for aspiring authors of fiction. I have benefitted greatly from all the help available there and I feel my writing has improved dramatically.

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@rhondak has also created @SFT - the Steemhouse Fiction Trail. This is a curation trail that shares first chapters and one off stories, excellent pieces of work that have gone through critiquing and editing at the fiction workshop. Eventually, the hope is to grow into the first publishing house entirely backed by cryptocurrency. A website, housing a library of SFT curated works, can be found at http://sftlibrary.com/ - also created by @rhondak.

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Another excellent initiative, suggested by @aggroed - the founder of the minnow support project - has been set up, called SteemShelves. The idea is for you to have a place to link all your serialized posts, which saves readers having to manually trawl through your blog to find previous chapters. The site can be found at http://www.steemshelves.com/ - read more HERE.

To get an idea of what a SteemShelf looks like here is mine for my Virtual Mortality sci-fi series: http://www.steemshelves.com/gmuxx/

So in conclusion, if you are a fiction author or aspiring to become one, join us at https://discord.gg/t7Yz679 - you are most welcome to submit your work for review, edit, and critique. Please don't drop Steemit links though, we prefer to work with Google docs to allow the reviewers to make edits and comments. See HERE for a run through of how to set up a Google doc for editing and comments. Seasoned writers are very welcome too who may wish to help with critiquing or editing.

See you at the Fiction Workshop



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These are all wonderful projects @gmuxx.

Steemit is lucky to have the likes of you @aggroed, @rhondak and all of the people who keep #minnowsupportproject up and running.

But,

Virtual Mortality?

Haha... love the gif @theblindsquirl.

These are exactly my feelings too, @gmuxx! :D

Great post! The Workshop is truly the most functional and awesomazing place Steemit has to offer and I'm not biased at all.

"Please don't drop Steemit links though, we prefer to work with Google docs to allow the reviewers to make edits and comments."

Lovely tribute to the best people on Steemit. Absolutely, wholeheartedly endorse this post.

I love this idea, I hope to join soon and grow together

Incredible! I am so thrilled to see something like this here on Steem! I had been working on a steampunk novel over the past year and a bit, but I ended up getting sidetracked with real life and other projects along the way and had to put it aside. I have been looking over it this past week, and by great fortune, caught this post. I am very excited and intrigued by this, and will be watching closely!

I acquired an interest in world building from great gaming lore, fantasy books, and shows like Game of Thrones. This seems like a fun way to throw around some ideas. The publishing house is a great idea as well and I think there's a lot of merit to it.

I've been dabbling in a little fiction writing for both world building and making text-based games with programs like Twine. This is a really good idea, thanks for sharing! I really like the idea of a crypto publishing house.

It is definitely unique in the publishing world

Awesome!! This is just the kind of community I was looking for :)

Oooh, fantastic post, @GMuxx. Thank you for this!

No, thank you for your incredible hard work with this community

I do not like fiction, but I like people who write fiction. Great idea!