Who said that building an online empire is easy? It has taken me SIX years to develop/craft the concepts of three book series. Do you know how it feels to keep secrets for six years without telling anyone, not even the closest person to yourself (which is my girlfriend aka wife)? Now imagine that with all that secret diligent work over the past six years, you decide to take it to the internet. But you pause, second guessing yourself, "may be no one will like my work" or "have I wasted my life thus far over beliefs from six years ago?" These and more are the challenges and criticisms I put my own self through; imagine other people and what they will say.
Just recently, I decided to give my girlfriend aka wife a look into my second life. The life I live as a promising writer (so I say to myself each time I sit down to write) has been through more ups and downs than my normal (wouldn't call it normal...no one is normal). I hand her a copy of three chapters of one series "The End Time Chronicles: Prophecies" and you know what she tells me? "So what are you now? A writer? Couldn't you have picked a [real] career?" My jaw dropped (almost to the floor, mind you), yet nothing but hot air came out.
I know what is stacked up against me in terms of this media industry; everyone including their elderly grandmother is a writer looking for a break. I stopped reading other (although I do read older Stephan King novels religiously and no I am not writing any horror...yet) author's works simply because I do not want to adapt my writing style to another...you may have your mind set against it, but in one way or another you do adapt. So when I heard my girlfriend aka wife slightly crush my dream (soon to be reality) of being an established author, I couldn't help but think "Should I go back to the drawing board and rewrite it all??
My girlfriend aka wife calls me up and shouts in my ear ?Wow, I cannot believe you wrote this. No offense, but this is quality stuff.? I think to myself, ?At least this is a step up from not even being acknowledged as a potential writer to being a writer that shouldn?t be able to write like I do.? Of course I think as you are thinking now, is she simply saying what she is saying because she loves me and doesn?t want to hurt my feelings? My girlfriend aka wife is greatest literature lover I have ever met and she is probably the closest I?ll get to an actual book critic for the time being. Plus after the earlier statement, you have probably guessed that she doesn?t hold any punches. ?You better continue this or I will kick your butt? (no, she didn?t use that word and I also excluded other words so I do not offend anybody).
Now as I write this, I am currently developing the website that will house my book series (and hopefully secure a publisher in the process). I am decent when it comes to HTML but I realize that this website has to be anything but static HTML; I also been reading up on Web 2.0 ideology and guess what? The website will designed with web 2.0 in mind and I also have The End Time Project I want other writers to help me with. I have grand plans for the website, a flash mini movie; a video game (think Guardian Heroes from the Sega Saturn) based in The End Time Chronicles universe and of course the secret project: The End Time Project.
I know I have a huge load of work coming my way but I know I can do it. Now I have to find people who will believe in my concepts and help build this empire together. I need mostly artists now, as I need visual drafts of all the characters. So I am looking for people to help me, may be that is the idea behind this post or could it be that I need to vent?
To be continued?
Frank Reese, Founder of F.R. MediaWorks
Just recently, I decided to give my girlfriend aka wife a look into my second life. The life I live as a promising writer (so I say to myself each time I sit down to write) has been through more ups and downs than my normal (wouldn't call it normal...no one is normal). I hand her a copy of three chapters of one series "The End Time Chronicles: Prophecies" and you know what she tells me? "So what are you now? A writer? Couldn't you have picked a [real] career?" My jaw dropped (almost to the floor, mind you), yet nothing but hot air came out.
I know what is stacked up against me in terms of this media industry; everyone including their elderly grandmother is a writer looking for a break. I stopped reading other (although I do read older Stephan King novels religiously and no I am not writing any horror...yet) author's works simply because I do not want to adapt my writing style to another...you may have your mind set against it, but in one way or another you do adapt. So when I heard my girlfriend aka wife slightly crush my dream (soon to be reality) of being an established author, I couldn't help but think "Should I go back to the drawing board and rewrite it all??
My girlfriend aka wife calls me up and shouts in my ear ?Wow, I cannot believe you wrote this. No offense, but this is quality stuff.? I think to myself, ?At least this is a step up from not even being acknowledged as a potential writer to being a writer that shouldn?t be able to write like I do.? Of course I think as you are thinking now, is she simply saying what she is saying because she loves me and doesn?t want to hurt my feelings? My girlfriend aka wife is greatest literature lover I have ever met and she is probably the closest I?ll get to an actual book critic for the time being. Plus after the earlier statement, you have probably guessed that she doesn?t hold any punches. ?You better continue this or I will kick your butt? (no, she didn?t use that word and I also excluded other words so I do not offend anybody).
Now as I write this, I am currently developing the website that will house my book series (and hopefully secure a publisher in the process). I am decent when it comes to HTML but I realize that this website has to be anything but static HTML; I also been reading up on Web 2.0 ideology and guess what? The website will designed with web 2.0 in mind and I also have The End Time Project I want other writers to help me with. I have grand plans for the website, a flash mini movie; a video game (think Guardian Heroes from the Sega Saturn) based in The End Time Chronicles universe and of course the secret project: The End Time Project.
I know I have a huge load of work coming my way but I know I can do it. Now I have to find people who will believe in my concepts and help build this empire together. I need mostly artists now, as I need visual drafts of all the characters. So I am looking for people to help me, may be that is the idea behind this post or could it be that I need to vent?
To be continued?
Frank Reese, Founder of F.R. MediaWorks
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