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After You Press “Send”
Read more: After You Press “Send”As an author of absolutely no repute whatsoever, I have a tendency to send out stories I have written to editors, agents, even magazines in an attempt to try and get published, or at the very least get representation. There comes a time when the writing of a particular article or story is finished (at…
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Where Do All The Writers Go?
Read more: Where Do All The Writers Go?I’ve been an aspiring writer of fiction (largely science fiction novels) for over twenty years now, and have yet to publish a book-length work. I have published a few short works, including one poem (free style), but nothing—short or long form—to a paying market. Not a particularly auspicious beginning to a writing career, especially when…
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Good Enough To Be Published
Read more: Good Enough To Be PublishedOver the past eighteen years, I’ve written three science fiction novels, each about 125,000 words. That’s just the word count of each of the manuscripts as they exist today, and doesn’t take into account all the re-writing and revisions I’ve made over the years, especially to the first. The total number of different words I’ve put into…