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I'm trying to write a novel for money.
Specifically, I'm writing an ebook to be published on Amazon, and the goal is to have it earn me at least a few hundred bucks a year. I don't like compromising on art, but I like starving even less. Hence the term "potboiler."
Since I'm throwing art right out the window from day one, what matters is pleasing the crowd. Since the crowd (ebook readers) mostly consists of middle class white women in their twenties from the coasts of the USA, I will be appealing to them. I'm not daunted by this since I have an embarrassing love of horrible romantic fanfiction. But what specifically appeals to them?
Most specifically, should I write in the 1st person present, or 1st person past?
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Can't believe I said specifically three times in one minute.
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I can believe that this thread is getting no replies, though.
/lit/ is mostly of the Henry Darger school of literary ambition, i.e. they intend to be published after their corpse is discovered on a bed of 10,000 pages of longhand worldbuilding.
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If u are starving, find a normal job. If you want to make art, make art, and make It for yourself.
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Look at romance novels and the type of books that have made lots of money like fifty shades of grey and twilight. My guess is most of those successful books are written in the first person.
Also maybe try reading some of Nicholas Sparks' more successful books and copy him, he seems pretty popular with women and has made good money pooping out similar plots over and over again.
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