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Anyone have any insight on Flash Fiction online? They've been closed for subs for a few months.
Not particularly. I get the impression they're way behind on things, but other than that, no, no insight. I am intrigued, though, as to where they're at, for other reasons.Anyone have any insight on Flash Fiction online? They've been closed for subs for a few months.
Anyone have any insight on Flash Fiction online? They've been closed for subs for a few months.
Matt,
What is it you want to know about FFO?
They are a somewhat controversial market due to the editor's views (I am sure Rose or others will be along to explain shortly). Personally I only ever submitted once, before they closed to subs over six months ago, and got a very slow but nice and detailed personal rejection.
Matt,
They are a somewhat controversial market due to the editor's views (I am sure Rose or others will be along to explain shortly).
queer viewpoints, non-conservative views of God/religion, and profanity also seem to be a big no for the editor.
Drat, there goes my chance to sell my Gay Jesus with Tourette's story. )-:
-Suzanne
I don't know anything about them. Nada. Not a bean. But, $1k is a nice pay-rate. It looks like there might be a few stories that've been there longer than 65 days, so possibly you're in the consider pile.Anyone have any experience with Subtropics? I sent something off to them in early Jan. They only take snail mail submissions and I never got a confirmation that it was received (which is fine, I know that's common). They say on their site that they try to respond quickly and their stats on Duotrope say that the longest response time was 65 days (if I understand the stats correctly).
I am itching to send an email, but hate to do that. *sigh*
I was aiming really high on this one, I know, so chances are I was rejected, if it even made it to them in the first place...but still...JUST WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING/ANYTHING!
Do you sense my frustration there?
that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. (those are happy tears forming, btw )I don't know anw ything about them. Nada. Not a bean. But, $1k is a nice pay-rate. It looks like there might be a festories that've been there longer than 65 days, so possibly you're in the consider pile.
Anybody else got stories they put off writing?
Re: Novels.
Some one pointed out that if you can write 250 words a day, you'll have a novel in a year. 500 is a novel in six months.
I have one almost ready to start. Of course, I still haven't finished the first draft of my novella, so my track record is not good.
I think I know what to do (with the help of betas) but not quite how to do it. And also, words that are written at the same time flow and I lose the flow of the sentences when I try to add things...
Anyone else have that problem?
Well, it appears the novel ideas i've set aside so as to focus on short fiction this year are shoving at the gates and demanding to be heard.
One is a story based on a dream i had, but now i've got ideas for a workable setting and an actual plot. w00t!
The other is an idea that's been percolating for over a decade. Every year or so it pokes its head through the bars and tells me to write it. And i always start, then decide my skill level's not quite where it needs to be to tell the story the way i want it to and put it away again. One day, one day.
Anybody else got stories they put off writing?
Anyone else have that problem?
Yes, I have that problem too. I can fix one little thing but if I start doing major re-writing, it tends to sound very stacatto in comparison with the lines around it.And also, words that are written at the same time flow and I lose the flow of the sentences when I try to add things...
Anyone else have that problem?
This particular one requires a much better grasp of a branch of epidemiology than I currently have. The research aspect keeps me from moving forward.