Good day. I'm a newbie, and like you, I'm drawn to horror. Where else could I be more gratifying than being this close to the King?
I'm here because I'm struggling with my product. My tales of horror is not fiction. It is my life without embellishment. I'm not a great writer, and crafting words is difficult. I spend too much time editing until it turns into an agonizing disease in which I cannot stop. Finding better consistency, richer words, more shock value, or simple things like cutting out half of the words, consume me. Anything I can do for words to roll of the tongue sweeter, I will do until it kills me. Meanwhile, I grab people that love to read, ask them to read what I have, and I hear "stop" all the time. "For God's sake, stop,"..."cut it out already." It's really quite silly, but it truly hinders me, slows me down, until I become so sick that I cannot write anything for a long time.
I have been writing my husband's memoir's. There is already twenty plus books published about him, and Hollywood is working on their twelfth movie. All the while the public is shown the same events over and over, which oddly reinvents itself. Just when it gets quite, boom, it explodes again and again. The angle that I have is what everyone is dying to read.
The other issues that I have now is I no longer have a good marriage. My husband raises hell when I make anything about him public. Now he doesn't want his memoirs written, after I lost a solid year investigating, flying up and down the east coast, and didn't proceed to obtain my 4-year degree. I had did have plans to go back after publishing his memoirs, but here I sit with a book proposal and a half of a manuscript. I should have had this finished, published, and back in school. What do I do now? Do I go on and publish, and if so will I face a lawsuit?
Now that I've been stalemate, I thought about writing my own memoir's while incorporating my marriage, lightly touching on the results of my year of research, but would that be a terrible combination?
I had created a blog, and set up alerts so that I could tap into what my potential readers will be like, count blog hits, but my potential readers want to hear about my husband. They ask me questions about him. I'm not educated enough to know if discussing him online would hurt me more, and again would it generate a law suite. Many people talk about him on other forums, and his "business" is all public knowledge, so wouldn't that protect me?
I redesigned my blog by pulling away from the topic of he, which since May 2014, has generated over 10k hits. Now, I just write about anything horror related, but true horror. Not fantasy.
With all that said, and if anyone make it this far and have insight you could share, please do. To close, I will also mention that I have thought about writing my memoir's to be used like a cautionary tale, because I'm almost unemployable due to the Internet. I write to certain individuals whom have taken a negative spotlight and used it to their advantage, but I do not hear back. I wish that I had someone whom could sympathize, and show me the path that I need to be on to save my livelihood. Am I the product, or is it my husband? Then show me what the blog needs like a merchandise store with apparel, or make audio recordings available since I have sat for upwards of 300+ hours recording certain conversations for the book. Having someone help mold me into what is ethically marketable. I'm sitting with wheels spinning, with my quality of life slowly declining. That itself is frightening.
I'm here because I'm struggling with my product. My tales of horror is not fiction. It is my life without embellishment. I'm not a great writer, and crafting words is difficult. I spend too much time editing until it turns into an agonizing disease in which I cannot stop. Finding better consistency, richer words, more shock value, or simple things like cutting out half of the words, consume me. Anything I can do for words to roll of the tongue sweeter, I will do until it kills me. Meanwhile, I grab people that love to read, ask them to read what I have, and I hear "stop" all the time. "For God's sake, stop,"..."cut it out already." It's really quite silly, but it truly hinders me, slows me down, until I become so sick that I cannot write anything for a long time.
I have been writing my husband's memoir's. There is already twenty plus books published about him, and Hollywood is working on their twelfth movie. All the while the public is shown the same events over and over, which oddly reinvents itself. Just when it gets quite, boom, it explodes again and again. The angle that I have is what everyone is dying to read.
The other issues that I have now is I no longer have a good marriage. My husband raises hell when I make anything about him public. Now he doesn't want his memoirs written, after I lost a solid year investigating, flying up and down the east coast, and didn't proceed to obtain my 4-year degree. I had did have plans to go back after publishing his memoirs, but here I sit with a book proposal and a half of a manuscript. I should have had this finished, published, and back in school. What do I do now? Do I go on and publish, and if so will I face a lawsuit?
Now that I've been stalemate, I thought about writing my own memoir's while incorporating my marriage, lightly touching on the results of my year of research, but would that be a terrible combination?
I had created a blog, and set up alerts so that I could tap into what my potential readers will be like, count blog hits, but my potential readers want to hear about my husband. They ask me questions about him. I'm not educated enough to know if discussing him online would hurt me more, and again would it generate a law suite. Many people talk about him on other forums, and his "business" is all public knowledge, so wouldn't that protect me?
I redesigned my blog by pulling away from the topic of he, which since May 2014, has generated over 10k hits. Now, I just write about anything horror related, but true horror. Not fantasy.
With all that said, and if anyone make it this far and have insight you could share, please do. To close, I will also mention that I have thought about writing my memoir's to be used like a cautionary tale, because I'm almost unemployable due to the Internet. I write to certain individuals whom have taken a negative spotlight and used it to their advantage, but I do not hear back. I wish that I had someone whom could sympathize, and show me the path that I need to be on to save my livelihood. Am I the product, or is it my husband? Then show me what the blog needs like a merchandise store with apparel, or make audio recordings available since I have sat for upwards of 300+ hours recording certain conversations for the book. Having someone help mold me into what is ethically marketable. I'm sitting with wheels spinning, with my quality of life slowly declining. That itself is frightening.
