I decided to start writing detective stories in English and try

>>79147011
What kind of stories?

Getting published is phenomenally hard. Best of luck though.

>>79147011
If theyre based off the Slavic atrocities you surely witness daily as a Russian, then you should skip the novels and go straight for the screenplay.

>>79147011
If that Rowling bitch can do it, so can you

>>79147050
Like "Girl in the train"
>>79147060
Thanks

>>79147102
I don't see any atrocities, but I can vase my stories on shitty TV shiws like "Woman strangled her baby and hid the body in a refrigerator'"

>>79147011
Very good idea. I wanted to do a similar thing with comics or horror/mystery stories.
But I think you should start at writing short stories for magazines or something.
That's how I see it

>>79147011
That's a pretty tapped market there lad.

>>79147011
Set then in Russia, people will find that more interesting

>who is sir arthur conan doyle

>>79147011
How good is your English?

It's very rare for somebody to become a quality writer even in their native language

>>79147011
it is possible but imo usa has a bigger book market

joseph conrad (he was a pole) did it after all and afaik he couldn't even spoke english perfectly (written and spoken language are two separate even if connected skills)

anyway it's a /lit/ topic and also generally it is not easy to publish a book anywhere before you make yourself a name

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>>79147011
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The phrase "coals to Newcastle" comes to mind... why not do like Boris Akunin and write in Russian then publish an English translation if its successful?

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thinking of it, writing a modernist novel is probably easier because everybody will think that your grammar mistakes if you make one is an artistic device :^)
or poetry, but nobody prints it nowadays

seriously though there exist editors etc

>>79147552
>usa has a bigger book market
true, but in the detective genre British publication carries a lot cachet in the American market

>>79147594
well you probably don't realize that a book should be very successful to get a translation

>>79147594
Damned fine title burger

>>79147487
No worse than Ayn Rand

>>79147424
You think people want to read about Russian rednecks and their awful life?

>>79147594
The Russian book market is fucked up. Everything is corrupted, you can't become a successful wrirer here nowadays

>>79147011
that's literally what I'm doing but not because of profit, but just because I like writing. If you aren't a good english speaker I'd try to write them in Russian first and then translate over.

>>79147796
>The Russian book market is fucked up. Everything is corrupted, you can't become a successful wrirer here nowadays
now, it is kind of booming and if you think you can't get published in russia i bet the more so you can't get published overseas

>>79147900
do you have a short one to paste here? would like to read some desu

>>79148459
There isn't much mystery to "murder in the gulag", tbf lad

Follow your dreams

>>79148716
Be urself :))

>>79147011
I have been thinking to write Fantasy stories and publish them in USA or Japan.

>>79147011
you are a fucking loser and fuck your dreams