Did you receive the auto email immediately, or did it a take a few hours? 'Cause I haven't gotten mine yet. >.<
My memory of Strange Horizons is that it ISN'T immediate. But it's been a while since I hit them with a submission.
Did you receive the auto email immediately, or did it a take a few hours? 'Cause I haven't gotten mine yet. >.<
God, that would be crazy. I can pound out a story in a day, only a few thousand words, but then I want to revise or read afterwards.Has anyone tried W1S1 daily? Maybe for just a week or month or something. Not sure if I could pull it off, but I was just curious. I seem to be writing my stories quicker so I can get this thing over for the week. Maybe I need more of a challenge.
Has anyone tried W1S1 daily? Maybe for just a week or month or something. Not sure if I could pull it off, but I was just curious. I seem to be writing my stories quicker so I can get this thing over for the week. Maybe I need more of a challenge.
Just saw that, too. Maybe they're not getting enough SF (they wouldn't be the only one), and as the laws of supply and demand go...I tend to be behind the curve on the short fiction markets, but I noticed yesterday that Escape Pod has changed their pay rate. Now they pay $0.05/word for unpublished fiction, $0.03/word for reprints - minimum of $100 per short story. This does not seem to be an across the board change to the other Escape Artists pubs (PodCastle and PseudoPod).
My story for the week sucks. All day I have been trying to fix it, but it is not working. I am trying to decide if I send it out anyway or try and write another one this weekend. I wish I had not spent so much time working on it.
Thanks, Aggy. I think you're right that I need a little distance. The story has a pretty strong opening but goes downhill fast. Maybe next week I will know what to do with it.
As for twitter fic, just my opinion, but I don't really count that. I hope I don't get yelled at here for saying that. My goal in doing W1S1 is to make it into some of the top literary journals so I am only trying to write things that could have a chance of being published in one of those. I don't just want to get published. I want to feel like I made it. I am trying to see if I have what it takes. Twitter fic, for me, would just be a distraction.
I get that. Sort of. But a story is a story. And Nanoism pays $1.50 per (unpublished) story. Works out to more than a penny per letter. Seems to me like that's pro-rates. (Though it doesn't qualify for most guilds due to minimum payment requirements.)
I find that Twitter fic is hella harder than it looks. And it taught me a thing or two about clarity and not using frivolous words.
I've also found that when I start limiting what I allow myself to write (putting all those rules in place about what makes agoodreal story) I wind up with a lot more turds than gold.
Of course, your mileage may vary.
lol, I'll take that as a challenge.Thanks
There isn't actually a story to go with the cover, this time. But... if you want to write one and send it in before we close for subs...
There isn't actually a story to go with the cover, this time. But... if you want to write one and send it in before we close for subs...
Thanks
I hope it'll be a fun issue, too. Haven't actually bought any stories yet, but should be doing so soon.
And get that story written and sent in! You and anybody else who gets an idea from the cover