Although I’ve been writing short stories and poetry for most of my life, it’s only recently that I’ve tried to write a full-fledged novel. In all honesty, the thing that inspired me to write the book that I’m working on right now, "Rejects", was a dream that I had. A few scenarios in the first chapter of the book were directly influenced by the actions and scenes that were in that dream and I just received such a powerful desire to write a story surrounding those events.

Please feel free to leave shameless self-promotion on this thread! I’d love to be able to read about the inspirations of others and how that’s gotten them to where they are with their novel.

I’m a relatively new author with admittedly very few reader-related connections, so I was curious if anyone had tips and tricks to gain more traffic towards my project and hopefully support this thing that I have a great passion for.

Thank you for any and all advice!

Contests are nice because if your book fits the contest’s theme (i.e. Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Video Games), you can get all the perks of the full publishing contract without having to hit that 750 goal, which can take months and a lot of time.  But, I know plenty of people who didn’t win or were not in a contest who campaigned for the full 750 and made it just fine. 

Hope this helps