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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 31, 2015 23:20:16 GMT -5
The first also-bought on Nolander is Solatium. The second one is Take Off Your Pants!  |
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Post by ameliasmith on Apr 1, 2015 7:29:48 GMT -5
Read mostly by people who frequent KBoards?
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Post by Daniel on Apr 1, 2015 8:16:41 GMT -5
Interesting. I don't think the sales are coming just from KBoards. Solatium has been in the top 20K pretty much since its release and regularly dips into the top 10K. That level of sustained sales only comes from consistent word-of-mouth recommendations from readers. That said, those readers might very well be connected to each other through writer communities like KBoards.
I'm not sure how long Amazon maintains the relationship between also-boughts, but having Take Off Your Pants there does suggest that the Emanations series is still enjoying some residual attention from the DMCA debacle. To which we say, "Ha, ha, take that, scammer scumbag!"
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Post by carlos on Apr 6, 2015 12:37:06 GMT -5
The first also-bought on Nolander is Solatium. The second one is Take Off Your Pants! I read TOYP recently and found it surprisingly helpful. The author references John Truby's "The Anatomy of Story" which is an 'at length' presentation of some of the same concepts (almost too detailed in some respects.) The downside is that TOYP and TAOS have revealed to me the essential weakness in my (ahem) 'life's work'  'RAQUEL [or] The Visiting Professor', leaving me in a quandary whether to rewrite it (one more time) or to leave well enough alone and move on. Temptation runs both ways. Rats! I am such a natural (or maybe 'godforsaken') 'pantser' I doubt I could ever achieve the level of forethought and organization demonstrated by these two gurus of outlining--but they made a great argument for not wasting quite so much of my life dinking around with false starts and mental meanderings. |
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Post by Daniel on Apr 6, 2015 14:04:17 GMT -5
I am such a natural (or maybe 'godforsaken') 'pantser' I doubt I could ever achieve the level of forethought and organization demonstrated by these two gurus of outlining--but they made a great argument for not wasting quite so much of my life dinking around with false starts and mental meanderings. Planner or pantser, I figure that you should use whatever method helps you get the words out. I think it is easier to apply story structure from the beginning, but I don't think it is essential to do so. By easier, I mean you end up doing less rework on the manuscript after the first draft. That said, I believe many pantsers learn how to apply structure as they progress through the story. Rework your stories enough times, and some of the concepts are bound to sink in. Also, some writers seem to be natural storytellers who produce well-structured stories without thinking about it. I think Stephen King may be one of those, although I've never analyzed any of his work for structure. I'm a planner, but I don't try to argue that planning is best. I will argue that stories need structure at some point. Disregarding the basics of story structure is a path to madness and literary fiction. But even those stories have their place. |
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Post by Alan Petersen on Apr 6, 2015 14:50:19 GMT -5
Like Daniel wrote, that's your post-DMCA battle badge. It will eventually get pushed out. It's great to see Solatium down there, that means even though they might have downloaded Nolander to support your battle, peeps, were like, "good book" and off to buy the next one.  I love to see my two books in each other's also bought streams. |
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'RAQUEL [or] The Visiting Professor', leaving me in a quandary whether to rewrite it (one more time) or to leave well enough alone and move on. Temptation runs both ways. Rats!
