It’s that time again…open mic! Enjoy chatting, what’s up, what you’re working on, what ideas come next, what you’re avoiding, what ever…
It’s that time again…open mic! Enjoy chatting, what’s up, what you’re working on, what ideas come next, what you’re avoiding, what ever…
Working through proof-reading edits. I’m like a slug on them.
Working on other works when I’m just stuck
I’m still trying to get past the last bit of the mid-writing, rolling-rewrite revision of my main WIP to press on to producing a finished draft. It’s been something I’ve been slogging through for over a year, now.
As a guilty-pleasure project, I’ve also done a quick kinky-erotic fairy-tale, riffing on Little Red Riding Hood.
I’m stumbling my way through a first draft of a first novel.
The market for f&sf short stories has changed so much since I was in the thick of it that I no longer know where to submit. The Web is rife with lists of magazines, but none distinguish between “good” ones and those that would do nothing for one’s reputation. I’ve fallen into the habit of sending an MS to Fantasy and Science Fiction and then just letting it sit abandoned in a file drawer when it is sent back with a form rejection.
Directing me to a source that ranks pro markets as worthwhile would be much appreciated.
There’s always self-pub.
I find that collections sell better than the individual stories in them.
https://www.ralan.com/m.pro.htm
Thanks! that looks perfect.
But self-pub means self-marketing. I rejected the idea of putting my OOP and rejected works online for two decades because I was terrified of being accused of blowing my own horn.
You may not have that problem; in which case, give it a try.
But self-pub means self-marketing. I rejected the idea of putting my OOP and rejected works online for two decades, being terrified of being accused of blowing my own horn.
You may not have that problem; you may view self-marketing, not as being thrown to the lions, but as just one more job.
(Patricia, if some week you’re short of material. you might repost the hat lecture.)
Here’s a link to the hat lecture.
https://pcwrede.com/pcw-wp/the-hat-lecture/