Going to publish book for kindle! How am i doing?
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good advice. I am a kid though. i might talk a little bit about there Origins . But it might be hard for me to do that kind of detail.
Ciao Constantino, non sapevo l'inglese era la seconda lingua. Dovrebbe considerare l'idea di scrivere il libro in italiano, poi tradotti in inglese. Si potrebbe essere più comodo scrivere in italiano. Si può anche provare la vendita in Italia. Solo un suggerimento. Good Luck.
Basicly I said I didn't know english was his second language. It might be eaiser to write in Italian and the have it translated into English. He could also try to market the book in Italy.
Basicly I said I didn't know english was his second language. It might be eaiser to write in Italian and the have it translated into English. He could also try to market the book in Italy.
OK, I'm just going to write my thoughts on this and you can do with them what you will.
First off, after reading many of your posts I can tell that you are passionate about cichlids and learning all you can about them. I think it is very commendable that you are trying to help people who are new to cichlids with this book for beginners. Especially coming from someone like you who knows how hard starting this hobby can be.
Now on with the critique:
Water Changes section: you are very vague about this (and most of the book for that matter). Examples are writing "You should lots of water changes if you have American cichlids." And "You should change 30-80 percent of an American cichlid tank." You never actually say to do them weekly and you should narrow your percentage so that beginners just have a number in their head. For example if I don't know what I am doing someone telling me to do weekly water changes of 50% is much more helpful.
To clear up this is not the entire book correct? Because the sections you have written are extremely short and has very limited information on the hobby as a whole and the 4 species you picked to write about.
I know you didn't want grammar help but the entire book is very poorly written, vague, and redundant. I don't see the value in this book as the information you have so far I could find, plus much more, in less then a few seconds on Google.
You have to remember who your audience is. This is for beginners to keeping cichlids and to aquariums as a whole. That is why you can't be vague because these people can't fill in the blanks. For example you write numerous times that they need good filtration, what is good filtration? You say that these fish are "bad", what do you mean by "bad"? Feed on a regular basis, how regular?
In the cichlids section you seem to say the same thing about every cichlid: They are all messy eaters, can eat most food, need regular water changes, and tons of personality and they will eat out of your hand.
Also even writers of books like this have to have cited material. They are not just sitting down and writing a book based of their own knowledge. You need to do tons and tons of research.
I don't want to come off as mean but someone needs to say it: You are one of the last persons on this forum that should be doing this. You are not a good writer and your knowledge on this subject as a whole is very lacking. I have been in the hobby for about 10 year and very active on forums like this for about 6 years. And by no means to I think that I could write a book on the subject. I know I am not qualified and I would think most would say the same about you. You are still learning a great deal as evident by your posts and that means that you are not the person to be handing out advice that is a published resource.
I know it sounds mean and you can think I am a jerk if you want but this is really not for you. Sorry. And I do truly hope that this doesn't change the way you are on this forum and your passion for cichlids and the hobby itself. As I said above I think it is great and everyone started off where you are. Maybe years later when you have more personal experience and knowledge on the subject you could take up this idea again. But I don't think that this is a good fit for you right now.
-Cage
First off, after reading many of your posts I can tell that you are passionate about cichlids and learning all you can about them. I think it is very commendable that you are trying to help people who are new to cichlids with this book for beginners. Especially coming from someone like you who knows how hard starting this hobby can be.
Now on with the critique:
Water Changes section: you are very vague about this (and most of the book for that matter). Examples are writing "You should lots of water changes if you have American cichlids." And "You should change 30-80 percent of an American cichlid tank." You never actually say to do them weekly and you should narrow your percentage so that beginners just have a number in their head. For example if I don't know what I am doing someone telling me to do weekly water changes of 50% is much more helpful.
To clear up this is not the entire book correct? Because the sections you have written are extremely short and has very limited information on the hobby as a whole and the 4 species you picked to write about.
I know you didn't want grammar help but the entire book is very poorly written, vague, and redundant. I don't see the value in this book as the information you have so far I could find, plus much more, in less then a few seconds on Google.
You have to remember who your audience is. This is for beginners to keeping cichlids and to aquariums as a whole. That is why you can't be vague because these people can't fill in the blanks. For example you write numerous times that they need good filtration, what is good filtration? You say that these fish are "bad", what do you mean by "bad"? Feed on a regular basis, how regular?
In the cichlids section you seem to say the same thing about every cichlid: They are all messy eaters, can eat most food, need regular water changes, and tons of personality and they will eat out of your hand.
Also even writers of books like this have to have cited material. They are not just sitting down and writing a book based of their own knowledge. You need to do tons and tons of research.
I don't want to come off as mean but someone needs to say it: You are one of the last persons on this forum that should be doing this. You are not a good writer and your knowledge on this subject as a whole is very lacking. I have been in the hobby for about 10 year and very active on forums like this for about 6 years. And by no means to I think that I could write a book on the subject. I know I am not qualified and I would think most would say the same about you. You are still learning a great deal as evident by your posts and that means that you are not the person to be handing out advice that is a published resource.
I know it sounds mean and you can think I am a jerk if you want but this is really not for you. Sorry. And I do truly hope that this doesn't change the way you are on this forum and your passion for cichlids and the hobby itself. As I said above I think it is great and everyone started off where you are. Maybe years later when you have more personal experience and knowledge on the subject you could take up this idea again. But I don't think that this is a good fit for you right now.
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