One question: do any of the self-publishing skeptics here speak from experience with the traditional publishing scene, or are they just being...
Jeff himself knows other writers follow his lead style-wise and is flattered by it, not ticked off. I still would make your story your own,...
I like rendering the thoughts of my characters in italics a la Judy Blume, Dan Brown, and Tom Clancy. They set them apart from spoken dialogue...
I did several drafts of the 18 page project I just published in print and e-form at Lulu.com; no stone went unturned, and I wrote until something...
Well, be that as it may, I personally am out of patience with magazines, ezines, etc. There is simply too few of them to go around for the mass...
Lulu.com is not precisely a "vanity press" IMO -it's a print on demand establishment which means that supply and demand can be equally met without...
Put 'em up at Lulu.com! That is where I'm taking my stories after a final round of rejection and failure to get back to me from the realm of...
Having struggled for years to get a short story into magazines, I finally decided to take the self-publish route; the result can be found in my...
Hi unluckyguardsman. You wrote about plot 3: "Where is the plot in here? A nice enough beginning idea, but it needs abetter character arc to...
This is kind of meant to be a sort of short story version of Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" (I.e. stories with common themes but different...
Here are three plots of mine I need help with, each of which has an aspect that gives them something in common: Plot 1: a good, decent guy who...
Just found this thread and would like to say that if you get constructive critques of your writing, nobody is being hard on you, they're just...
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