Dissecting Literature

Hey there, travelers! A quick announcement before we get into today’s post: we finally bit the bullet and made a newsletter! If you don’t want to miss out on weirdly interesting posts like this one, or the development of our books, be sure to subscribe! We promise not to flood your inbox, only bring you a list of things once a month to bring a little spark to your life. You can find the form on our website (https://dlkardenal.weebly.com), and on the sidebar of this blog (click on the sandwich lines in the top left corner). Now, back to why you’re here! The concept of lost civilizations is a fascinating one. As a child, I always imagined them as a place of magic, heroes, and epic stories. Most of these were inspired by mythology which I still adore—you might have noticed subtle hints of this—but even people from ancient times had legends and stories about long-lost empires. There is some truth behind every tale and myth, but apart from that, they are a great source of inspiration for wr...

  I reached the point where if I see one more writing advice I will stop writing anything. When I see writing advices, pet peeves, dos and don’ts, I can’t help but see them as a checklist. Did I do that? Did I do that right? What if we did that and it’s bad? Getting close to the release of our debut novel I can’t stop thinking about the things we did right and things we did wrong, although I know we can’t start rewriting the whole thing again. If we would start rewriting it then we need to go through the whole editing process again, send it to our editor again, and we won’t finish it in the next 1-2 years. And would the book become better? It would change of course, but I don’t think it would get better, only different. This is a very toxic mental state, that can lead to endless rewriting and editing, resulting in a WIP that will never be finished. How did I end up here? When we started to take writing more seriously I wanted to learn more about the craft itself. The main short...

  We almost finished our debut novel, Shackles of the Storm in our native language (Hungarian), when we realized that we need others to read it as well. It is our book baby after all. So I dived into the depths of the internet to learn some marketing and boy… if you think writing a book is hard, then you ain’t see nothing yet.   In today’s blogpost I want to share with you how we started, what did we learn, and how it is going… 1. The authortube When I needed a new recipe, a way to insert the dishwasher, or anything related to DIY my first source was always youtube videos. So, naturally, I went there first when I wanted to learn more about the craft of writing, what it takes to get traditionally publish and how should we self-publish. After finding booktube, I soon came across the two biggest authortube channels – which I won’t name here – and realized, that I was the incarnation of Jon Snow in this world. I knew nothing.  So I started to religiously watch the videos...