Writer Discussion Table

[Nabe Man]

I am not planning my manga to be a dora the explora show but whenever the language pops up it will be read in english/ in any language the manga translates to. The language is just a piece to the story

[Lumaria]

you keep thinking i dont understand, but i do.

it still sounds like you're going to be teaching them something that they will have to remember. and quite frankly, if its not as appealing, it will "feel" like dora the explorer without the connection to it.

i knwo its a part of your story, but its a pretty big part.

[Nabe Man]

The most that will be remembered is a few words meaning someone's teritory, the name of the language, where it originated and its branched purpose and thats all I assure you. Plus the story shall be appealing 

[Lumaria]

whether its appealing will depend on the reader, not on you. your goal should always be to give what the reader wants on the basis that if its a good idea.

Regardless you still dont understand the issue previously said. changing made up language can be done in a form of a cop out. you can invent new ways to mess with the story, and some of them can be done last minute.

[Nabe Man]

Lorenx this won't be a problem

[Lumaria]

you can't promise that.

[Nabe Man]

I know I can't but the story shall progress and I know you wouldn't mind helping me correct my mistakes

[Lumaria]

i already did. and you're not fully accepting it. and i learned not to help people who tend to let it go to waste.

the issues of it seem much more fundamental.

[legomaestro]

Which self distrubution system would you use for your completed light novels/ stories? Dropbox? Google docs? A torrent link on kickasstorrents? Have you ever tried self promoting yourself to at least 5 random people before? I want to try and see how it works out haha.

Would need a short story of course and a simple cover, but I want to see how far that goes.

[Vacant]

Hmmm, I guess if you had the time/knowledge you could build your own site and host it on there and promote it on forums, twitter, facebook and youtube?

[legomaestro]

Guess so. I'd say blogs but those are nightmares to maintain man haha.

[Vacant]

Yeah, I've never had a blog and not very clued up on the whole site building deal. Is there any kind of publication you could send it to, like a monthly magazine that puts out groups of chapters at all? Maybe that'd be something to look at

[Vacant]

I've  had a quick look, there's a Light Novel database here you could link you're story to here. May be worth putting it up.

http://lndb.info/

[legomaestro]

There are a number of websites like that yeah. The only directly anime related one would be textnovel.com. Otherwise there is stuff like writing.com and one I just need to google to remember. They are popularity based and seem to have a bunch of members who visit them. Might as well try that one. Is it sparkly?

*goes to check*

EDIT: Now that's interesting. Bakatsuki does have two original english light novels posted up, so the people there could be interested in this sort of thing.

[legomaestro]

Whoa, this site is pretty  sweet man.

Completely forgotten that other website though haha. Must be tired.