Hello there,
My username means Sun Dog in Lakota Sioux, but I'm pretty much pure Irish. You can neither spell nor pronounce anything in Gaelic so I didn't bother. LOL
I've been writing for a very long time and have sold an interview to StarLog and stories to magazines in the past. I've always written a great deal of fan fiction and continue to do so. If you're fannishly inclined it's an excellent training ground.
I just sold a 10,873 word story to Dreamspinner press and was paid the munificent sum of $55. That's a half a cent a word. (Payment was not discussed up front at all, stupidly I thought it would be fair.) They used to pay more in the 50's to writers of pulp fiction like Amazing Stories. So I'm pretty discouraged at the moment. I have a 60,000+ page book I'm working on that I was planning to send was planning to send to them, but I don't think so now. I may need to do some research and try to sell it myself, something I didn't want to do as I don't really have that kind of time. Sigh.
Hopefully you are all doing better with your sales.
Edit because I noticed I'm listed a a New Fish Learning about Thick Skin. LOLROF! I started writing for Star Trek and Star Wars fanzines back in '76. Everyone was a critic. They would take a lightsabre or a phaser and just shred what you wrote. You developed a hide like a rhino or you stopped writing. These days I know I have talent, so non-constructive criticism just makes me laugh. Paying me a half a cent a word though...that hurts...
My username means Sun Dog in Lakota Sioux, but I'm pretty much pure Irish. You can neither spell nor pronounce anything in Gaelic so I didn't bother. LOL
I've been writing for a very long time and have sold an interview to StarLog and stories to magazines in the past. I've always written a great deal of fan fiction and continue to do so. If you're fannishly inclined it's an excellent training ground.
I just sold a 10,873 word story to Dreamspinner press and was paid the munificent sum of $55. That's a half a cent a word. (Payment was not discussed up front at all, stupidly I thought it would be fair.) They used to pay more in the 50's to writers of pulp fiction like Amazing Stories. So I'm pretty discouraged at the moment. I have a 60,000+ page book I'm working on that I was planning to send was planning to send to them, but I don't think so now. I may need to do some research and try to sell it myself, something I didn't want to do as I don't really have that kind of time. Sigh.
Hopefully you are all doing better with your sales.
Edit because I noticed I'm listed a a New Fish Learning about Thick Skin. LOLROF! I started writing for Star Trek and Star Wars fanzines back in '76. Everyone was a critic. They would take a lightsabre or a phaser and just shred what you wrote. You developed a hide like a rhino or you stopped writing. These days I know I have talent, so non-constructive criticism just makes me laugh. Paying me a half a cent a word though...that hurts...
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