Welcome Tierney! May good luck and productivity follow you on this lovely journey!
Are you in for weekly, biweekly, or monthly?
Are you in for weekly, biweekly, or monthly?
Welcome Tierney! May good luck and productivity follow you on this lovely journey!
Are you in for weekly, biweekly, or monthly?
Hello everyone. I'm just beginning W1S1. Over the past year or so, I've really let my writing fall by the wayside, and I'm hoping to use this to get myself motivated again.
Welcome, new members!Hello, W1S1! Just subbed a short story (first short story I've written in years) and I've got a few more on the way, so I'm officially clocking in for W1S1. Hoping to write and sub 1 short each month, as a minimum.
Thanks!Nice work, soapdish! Good luck with the subs.
Gah! Totally natural to feel embarrassed, but I'm sure they know everyone makes mistakes and accidents happen.Ahhhhh, I just submitted a story to a market...for the second time. They sent me a very polite e-mail saying that they don't consider previously submitted stories, but I still felt really embarrassed .
They found my story and 30 others in a folder for an email address that was only up on their website the first few days the anthology was open for submissions. So they're asking me (and those 30) to add another month for response times. Oh well. What's 140ish days compared to 107?
Oh no! That's deeply annoying. As it was their mistake, you'd at least think they'd let you jump the queue. Seems a shame to penalise people for submitting in a timely fashion.
Wow--that's really specific.Wondering if anyone knows any markets for a 1000 word contemporary fantasy piece (magic realism?) with mild suggestive humour? And it contains a bi-sexual bishop that might offend - though nothing is meant to be offensive.
So peeps, what is the average length of the short-shorts (I like that so much better than short fiction lol) you are submitting? What were the lengths of the last 5 you subbed?
No, I wanted your last 5 subs in general. Just to see if I am in line with others here on W1/S1. It just felt like my small pieces weren't really all that frickin' small. lolI didn't look up my last 5, but as a rule of thumb I aim to keep my shorts under 5k. Most of the pro markets I sub to have a stated preference for that length, even if their guidelines list higher limits. Flash is a great, growing market as well. Of course, there are sometimes a story just needs more room, but if I write over 5k I make sure that I can't tighten it and I go into submitting it knowing my chances will be somewhat less for the extra length. If I was Gene Wolfe no one would care how long it was, but I'm not, so I figure I need to maximize my chances.
Oops, just saw that you asked for length of flash stories, not short stories. Between 500 and 1000 usually, unless a specific call wants something different.
One of my friends has a convertible desk. You push something and it pops up like those coffee tables that pop up. She moves from sitting to standing as she works at her desk. She loves it.Just wondered, has anyone here tried writing at a standing desk? I feel like I'm sitting too much.