Post by papaof2 on Nov 12, 2018 19:21:50 GMT -6
I'm not sure if "The New Old Homestead" or "Just Another Voicemail" would make it as stand-alone books, but I'm considering putting together several of the "days/weeks in the life of" stories such as these and making a box set titled "Seasons In a Prepper's Life" or something similar. The lead-in to the box set would be something like this:
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Many stories exist in PAW (Post Apocalypse World) fiction. Most follow a person or group of people through their experiences to a nicely wrapped up conclusion.
But what of the real world? The world where you sometimes only have contact with a person or group for a few days or weeks. Are those people any less interesting? Are their experiences any less uplifting or less of an ordeal? Do they provide any fewer opportunities for learning than a complete beginning-to-end story?
"Seasons in a Prepper's Life" brings together some short visits with different groups. The visits are short in time span but rich in details, with each visit being 125,000 words or more in length (two average novels).
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Maybe offer the set of two stories for $4.99?
Or include "Accidental Family" in the set and make it $6.99?
Or make the individual stories also available for $2.99 each as well as the boxed set?
An anthology such as "Seasons" would also provide a place to put the bits that weren't used in some of the other stories - I have a folder of "Outtakes" that weren't big enough to make a chapter but might be OK as a one or two page vignette. Most of them would need no more than one paragraph to set the scene.
For the number crunchers: with the average adult reading at 300 words per minute, the total wordcount of "Homestead", "Voicemail" and "Family" would provide reading material for 24 consecutive hours.
Remember that published books will have been proofread by my schoolteacher wife and the text should at least read smoothly ;-)
Any buyers?
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Many stories exist in PAW (Post Apocalypse World) fiction. Most follow a person or group of people through their experiences to a nicely wrapped up conclusion.
But what of the real world? The world where you sometimes only have contact with a person or group for a few days or weeks. Are those people any less interesting? Are their experiences any less uplifting or less of an ordeal? Do they provide any fewer opportunities for learning than a complete beginning-to-end story?
"Seasons in a Prepper's Life" brings together some short visits with different groups. The visits are short in time span but rich in details, with each visit being 125,000 words or more in length (two average novels).
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Maybe offer the set of two stories for $4.99?
Or include "Accidental Family" in the set and make it $6.99?
Or make the individual stories also available for $2.99 each as well as the boxed set?
An anthology such as "Seasons" would also provide a place to put the bits that weren't used in some of the other stories - I have a folder of "Outtakes" that weren't big enough to make a chapter but might be OK as a one or two page vignette. Most of them would need no more than one paragraph to set the scene.
For the number crunchers: with the average adult reading at 300 words per minute, the total wordcount of "Homestead", "Voicemail" and "Family" would provide reading material for 24 consecutive hours.
Remember that published books will have been proofread by my schoolteacher wife and the text should at least read smoothly ;-)
Any buyers?
