How to start an E-zine by FanaticalPublishing, literature
Literature
How to start an E-zine
Very simple:
1, pick a theme.
2, make an E-mail for the 'zine(optional; you can use your personal one).
3, talk a whole bunch of people into subscribing and contributing to the first issue.
4, send the first issue to your subscribers.
5, repeat steps 3 and 4 for every subsequent issue.
(if you want to make money doing it) 6, once you have a large number of subscribers, start to run advertisements for people in exchange for money.
IMPORTANT TIP: talk to other publishers, see if you can work together. Example: two folks doing E-zines, on poetry, the other prose; they help to advertise each others' work; from that they both get more subsc
Super hero-villain Creator by jochannon, literature
Literature
Super hero-villain Creator
This is one way you can create a hero, villain, or sidekick. A freeware system I created, you can use it if you want; you can skip a step, do them in whatever order you please, or completely ignore it: knock yourself out.
Step 1: An idea
Think a general idea for your superhero/villain: it could be an alter ego, power, just anywhere you can start from, and build the hero around this core idea.
Step 2: Origins
How did your person become a hero/villain/sidekick? was she/he born with special powers? Did he/she get them in later life? Or is he/she simply a regular person who decided to do some good/evil?
Whether there are super powers or no,
I start with the basic idea, like 'girl walks form one end of the beach to the other in bondage'.
I write the start of the story, the first three or so pages, and from there I treated every alternate story line basically as a separate story.
I pick one page to be the 'last' page(the highest numbered) and then basically just fill in the spaces.
I write the different storylines like this: on page A I'd write "'X' will happen" if that page was a 'choice' page I'd write the choices at the bottom, one of which would be to page B(the next in the storyline) then I'd go to page B and write "'Y' will happen' and so on until the entire storyline was
A short guide to help you publish professionally by jochannon, literature
Literature
A short guide to help you publish professionally
Okay, so you are a writer and you want to publish your story: it's a great one, everyone who's seen it loves it; you're sure any editor who reads it will want to publish it, so you set out to get your story published.
Well, it's a little harder said than done: getting published professionally takes a lot of time and a lot of work.
Why? Simply because there are so many writers out there who all want to publish their work; most publishing houses have what is called a 'slush pile' which is all the submissions they receive from unknown writers.
STAY OUT OF THE SLUSH PILE, IF YOU CAN
If you have a family member or a friend who works in a publi
How to make an Alien species by jochannon, literature
Literature
How to make an Alien species
How to make an Alien species, a guide I hope you may find useful.
This is not a definitive guide; nor are any of these hard-and-fast rules; these steps do not need to be done in any particular order; you can do do them any way you please, or even go back and forth from one to another; this is just a simple guide to one way of making an Alien species, that I hope you may find helpful.
Step 1: A basic idea
Get a basic idea of what you want your species to be like: are they active or indolent; united or divided; expansive or conservative?
Example: have an idea for an alien species called the Kyrzik: the Kyrzik are a greedy, avaricious specie