ebooks

What an interesting few days it has been venturing into the world of novel writing and ebooks. It has been quite and experience for me personally but also interesting observe how social media is influencing the world of book writing. Writing a novel used to be such an intense thing in the past where you had to prepare a story and then try and get it into industry format and then shop it around to publisher. If you were lucky enough to be one the chosen few that the publishers like, you would have the opportunity to get you work featured.

This is one reason why I never ventured into the world of novel writing before, I had this image in my mind that it was such a serious and intense thing where only few could survive. Social media has changed all that and have made it possible for so many great writers to get featured and for so many great reads to be accessible.

Not everyone is in the writing world to get a publishing deal. I believe social media has helped create another category of writer, one that is serious about putting out good quality reads and works hard but may not necessarily have a publishing deal as their ultimate goal. For me, writing is an incredible art form and I write for the joy of it. Simply because I have a story to tell and I want to put it out there.

It's been a nice surprise to see how easy and convenient the systems of wattpad and Bookrix are to get your stuff online in a readable format. Not only that, they community at both wattpad and Bookrix has it set up in such a way that makes it easy for community members to find your work.  They definitely support the growth of writers all kinds and there are all kinds of contests, articles, online workshops that community members have access to. And finding a good read is free, easy, and fun :)

All I can say is that in the last few days, the joy of writing has really come back to me.  This ebook that I am putting out would never have been possible a decade before.  If I have writers block, inspiration is just a click away as I have access to thousands of great reads out there. I may never be an avid novel writer but if I wrote only one great story that so many people have access to, that's more than enough to make me happy.

I really want to encourage as many people as possible to sign up for a wattpad or bookrix account. You don't have to be an author, it's for people who are looking for a good read as well. I don't see myself pumping out novel after novel and for the most part I'll probably be using just to find a good read as well.  I pour out so much of myself through blogging so it is nice to access an online community where I can read somebody else's work after I work so hard to make sure that people are getting a good read on my blogsite.


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