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Author Craft / Small Victories

« on: March 08, 2008, 07:00:33 AM »

This thread is for the writers among us to post about their small victories in the war known as Being A Writer.

Tonight I both finished and managed to edit down a short story for a magazine contest. The word limit was 2500. It was firm. I have the most trouble with that length.

Author Craft / Critique Circle Online Workshop

« on: September 30, 2007, 09:06:24 PM »

Critique Circle

One of the best critique/workshop sites I've yet encountered. Lots of members, fairly short waiting time for story submission, interesting point system to ensure fairness in critiquing, and some of the most ingenious formatting systems I've ever seen. The software actually lets you create WYSIWYG inline critiques on the fly as you read. Very clever!

The entire setup is designed to protect your first publishing rights.

There's also an active forum and I've found the people there to be dedicated and friendly. What's more, the site also boasts a host of writing help tools (character templates, outlining program, etc.) and a nice database of links and articles on writing, editing and selling your work.

Author Craft / Very interesting new market for the writers here...

« on: September 22, 2007, 05:26:47 AM »

Thrilling Tales Quarterly: Pulp For The New Millenium

First issue to be released soon. It would be nice to get in on the ground floor here because, apparently, they have licensed some classic characters that they plan on running serials about.

I thought that this might be an especially interesting market for this board since a lot of posters here have played/play Spirit Of The Century and thus have experience in crafting pulp style characters and stories.

The pay is 3 cents per word, really decent for a start up. The only down side IMO is that they don't accept e-subs. In a sense, though, that just means they won't have as thick a slush pile.

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