Hey just starting this crazy ride (W1/S1). I started a new short today and also worked on my novel. Finding it a little difficult to switch things off and change gears but hopefully like Articshark I will find my groove. Happy writing!
Hey, Batspan! Do you know if you can export Markets you have added to Sonar3?I started a file of ideas for new stories. Enjoying using Scrivener and Sonar submission tracking software for this.
Hey, Batspan! Do you know if you can export Markets you have added to Sonar3?
Hey all. Checking back in after a pretty long absence. Not sure i'll be back on the W1S1 horse for a while yet, but i'll definitely be around here.
Just wondered what everyone here does with their older stories. Do you keep them circulating even when your writing style has changed?
I have some early stories which haven't yet found a home, but have been held up for a long time at some markets, so they haven't been circulated everywhere yet either. In the mean time, I think (I hope!) my writing has improved. I've edited the stories over time, and I still like them, but now I'd rather write new stories than edit much older ones, so I don't intend to touch them any more.
But the idea with W1S1 is to keep sending the stories out until they find a home regardless. Is this what you do?
I have found the longer I do w1s1 the harder it is to keep them all out there.
I finished stories that I felt weren't good enough to submit to markets. But among the ones I polished and submitted, I've never removed one from circulation yet. I have stuff still making rounds from 2010!
I typically keep them circulating until i've at least run out of markets that pay, though there have been a few i've retired earlier than that. Though, even with ones i've retired, if a new market comes along that i think they might fit at, i'll get them out, give them a quick polish and send them over.Just wondered what everyone here does with their older stories. Do you keep them circulating even when your writing style has changed?
I've never used Scrivener. Heard good things about it though.Good to read about how some of you who have been on this track longer do it.
I've been doing major revisions on older stories. Re-envisioning them to the extent that the final story is a new thing. Only on the ones that are worth it.
Having fun with Scrivener. Took an old SF story apart in it to restructure it.
Hey, good going Sometimes something like that gets the rest of your writing moving again, too.Just did something I've never done before. A story came to me (in the shower of course) so as soon as I was done I sat down, wrote it and immediately submitted. To the market that gave me my last R, no less, mainly because it's hard to find paying markets for stories of that length of indeterminate genre.
It's something, at least. I'm still working on stories I started in January. Sigh. Rough year.
Here's another vote for Scrivener. Got a free trial and never look back. I now use it for fiction, non-fiction, blog posts, journaling and recipes.