WanderingAuthor
Hopes and Dreams
I’m not posting this as “news”, since nothing is final yet, but I may be publishing a small magazine somewhat soon. If so, it will be a very small new publication, so no payment for the first few issues at least, only prestige. (That will be true for the dedicated, hard-working editor as well.) And, to make it worthy of notice, _I will need to pull on all my tough alligator skin editor clothes,...
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All Writers Take Heed
I have looked over a number of writing sites, or sites that offer some accommodation for writers, on the Internet. I don’t claim to have an exhaustive list, but I have (private) bookmarks to over a hundred, with notes. Of those, nearly every one is exploitative of writers and destructive to members’ hopes of a career. Of all those sites, there are only three I would personally consider having…
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Sleeping Beauty - Further Ideas
Since I’d like this to help as many of you as possible, I thought I’d point out a few more things you can learn from this, and respond to an interesting idea brought up in the comments to the first journal entry.
First of all, some of you thought it would be interesting to see how the different versions would come out if you tried editing the original story. I’ve thought about it, and I thin…
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Sleeping Beauty - Self-Editing Lessons
I had a private request (the person who contacted me will remain nameless) asking me how I always managed to ‘hit’ the word count in Twisted Tales competitions.
I pointed out that you do have to begin with an idea that will work for a very short story; no story requiring six or eight scenes is going to permit cutting to 250 words. I then offered to post a story in first draft to then go on…
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Writers' Concerns
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the troubles we face as writers. We need to figure out new ways of marketing our work, to fit the changed world we live in. We need to perfect the methods and tools necessary to do that.
We need to figure out how to deal with the “Orphaned Works” copyright law. Even if you don’t live in the US, it will affect you, because US companies are online. One r…
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Art Vs. Commerce
I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue lately. I want to develop what talent I have to its highest potential. To do this, I need to write as much as possible. To do that, I need to be free of the necessity of bringing in cash in ways that don’t develop my writing skills.
At the moment, most writers don’t even make enough to live on. I know of one professional author, published, been w…
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