I have no life! I can't type that fast!
I am doing NaNoWriMo, and my exams finished in a similar time period.
Although that really wasn't much of a handicap. Computer Science I didn't need to study for (For obvious reasons), Engineering Planning, Design, and Communications is incredibly easy and similarly study-skippable, Physics I'd actually done most of last year and still remembered, and Maths was in a similar boat.
...I got off really easy, actually.
Writing Schedule:
Monday 20 - 2400 (37047) 2 hrs (basic writing slot, 3 to 5) Tuesday 21 - 1200 (38247) 1 hr (NHS Inductions, I'm NHS president) Wednesday 22 - 4800 (43047) 4 hrs (half day, up at night) Thursday 23 - 4800 (47847) 4 hrs (day off, after I come back from Thanksgiving dinner(s), up at night) Friday 24 - 2400 (50247 and Done) 2 hrs (finish it in the morning to give as a present to GF later that day [anniversary]) Does Lulu.com have any hidden fees or drawbacks? And can I make money off it? I would like to try and get this published rather hassle-free but don't want it to come back and bite me (contracts, transfer of ownership, etc.) if it becomes popular. :p | |
500 WPM.. yeah, right. =P
The fastest typist can type faster than the fastest writer, and the fastest typists can barely peak beyond 150 WPM. =P | |
EGUY wrote:
Does Lulu.com have any hidden fees or drawbacks? Not that I know of, but you could ask Lummox JR - he's published a book on there just recently. And can I make money off it? Yes, that's sort of the point. =) | |
EGUY wrote:
Writing Schedule: To my knowledge Lulu has never had such complications. They state unequivocally that the book is yours, and that you have the right to stop publishing it on their site at any time. Of course, if it becomes popular I'm not sure why you'd want to anyway. Lummox JR | |
Omg, I was in school in my English class, as I was contemplating a scene popped into my head... a beautiful scene :) but of course a sad scene must follow a happy one... and there I had it... I so wish I could animate because if I could I would so animate this scene ahhh it's beautiful :D yet sad at the same time :(
Here is an overview of the scene: It's raining... a boy and a girl stand there in the rain with sad faces attached to themselves *Depressing Naruto music from when the Hokage passed away plays!* ... and I really am not in the mood to type everything else but you can imagine what I thought ahhh it was so beautiful Haha :D | |
I have just started my story and I have wrought a 500 word opening paragraph... I wonder if thats enough?
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Stephen-San wrote:
I have just started my story and I have wrought a 500 word opening paragraph... I wonder if thats enough? 500 words is typically on the very long side for a paragraph. Most paragraphs are closer to 50-150 words, I would think. Lummox JR | |
can i get a site to LuLu?
im a big writer with loads of idea's and im done with writing and not knowing how to publish my work. and does the storie have to be a certain size to be published? | |
VolksBlade wrote:
can i get a site to LuLu? The Web site is just www.lulu.com. and does the storie have to be a certain size to be published? Typically no, you can publish short or long works. There are some maximums, but unless you're writing the epic to end all epics you have nothing to worry about. Physical size is a different matter--you have to go with one of the sizes they make available, but they give you lots of good options. Lummox JR | |
So, as I think it works and I might be wrong, Lulu sells the book, takes whatever it costs to make it and probably a little more, and returns whatever is left to you? Does anyone buy books from Lulu? I heard you can pay little bit to get it posted on Amazon.
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EGUY wrote:
So, as I think it works and I might be wrong, Lulu sells the book, takes whatever it costs to make it and probably a little more, and returns whatever is left to you? Does anyone buy books from Lulu? I heard you can pay little bit to get it posted on Amazon. My understanding is that Lulu's service is the better one, but it does deserve more research. The way it works is that you set the price of the book, and they charge 1) the base price to print it plus 2) the excess needed to reach your price. From that profit, you get 80% and they get 20%. If you buy your own book you only pay cost plus shipping. Lummox JR | |
Thank you all soo much, for your help, If yall see any books from the author Jeremy Lewis, make sure you read them and tell me how they are.
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Does LuLu require paypal, or such other type of thing like paypal? 'cause my dad said it takes money to keep a paypal account and im broke, plus how many books did yall create and sell of each, plus is LuLu a known book publisher, like castle books (or whatever) inc. or Viking Penguine, or any other great publishers? cause my dad thinks you guys are trying to get me into a bad publication site... but i strongley dis-agree with him, so when my book is finished (called: The Prince of Le-Ronian.) ima publish it on LuLu then see what happens.
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VolksBlade wrote:
Does LuLu require paypal, or such other type of thing like paypal? 'cause my dad said it takes money to keep a paypal account and im broke, plus how many books did yall create and sell of each, plus is LuLu a known book publisher, like castle books (or whatever) inc. or Viking Penguine, or any other great publishers? You do not need a Paypal account to use Lulu; it is one means by which they can pay out royalties, but they also do so by check. Lulu is definitely a known book publisher, but not a traditional publisher like the ones you mentioned. Some books printed by Lulu may appear in your local bookstores, but not in the same way other books do because their price structure is different. Traditional publishers do mass batch printings of each book, which is why they screen authors and choose very selectively who to publish. The mass printing means they can sell for a lower wholesale price. Bookstores ask for deep discounts off the retail (typically 40%), and get them, and for any given book a certain number is sent to each store based on expected demand. Lulu doesn't work that way. Lulu is print-on-demand publishing, which means that they allow anyone to use their service to be published. Anyone who wants to buy your book can do so, by shopping for it online at lulu.com. The book is then printed and shipped to them. This has a little more lead time than traditional publishing and isn't quite as cheap, but you can still make your book available at affordable prices and make money off of it if it's popular. They do have an additional global distribution service, which makes your book available to bookstores (and Amazon, I believe) as a special order item. You would pay for such a service yourself, which is how other POD publishers operate as well. With that service some stores might be willing to carry a bunch of copies of your book outright rather than by special order only, but they'd probably make no profit on it. Such books are called "net books" because the bookstore doesn't make anything for selling them--they merely get people into the store to buy other books. Alternatively, you can also buy a bunch of copies yourself at cost (they don't charge you the profit margin, only the cost of printing) and have the bookstore buy them from you; if the price is set right it may well fit the 40% discount they want. cause my dad thinks you guys are trying to get me into a bad publication site... but i strongley dis-agree with him, so when my book is finished (called: The Prince of Le-Ronian.) ima publish it on LuLu then see what happens. Lulu is certainly not a bad publishing site, though his skepticism is healthy. There are plenty of bad sites out there, but Lulu is well-respected and is used by a lot of people. I ordered a test copy of my own book, Sudoku Most Foul, and was pleased with the result (with the exception of some errors that were entirely my fault, which I corrected, hence the point of a test printing). Lulu is actually one of the few POD sites where you don't have to pay anything up front, so there's zero risk to your money, and as for copyright they make it crystal clear that you still own the copyright and are merely authorizing Lulu to publish the book (and take 20% of the profit) for as long as you list it. They're also one of the few POD sites that can do color printing, though naturally a full-color book is more expensive. Lummox JR | |
He's 14 with no life. His fingers get a lot of exercise.
Aaanyway... I'm not doing NaNoWriMo, mainly because by the time I finished my exams it was nearly halfway through November already, and I really needed some time to recover from the hectic mad rush of term.
I guess I could start now... let's see, I've got about 12 days remaining, so that's 50000/12 = about 4166 words per day. I can write a 1000-word essay draft in a couple of hours, so that means I only need to devote about... 8 or 9 hours a day to it. It's doable ... right ...?!