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Ah yes, I forgot networking. The guys over at KBoards said that short stories can help a lot with networking. And honestly, writing shorts solely with the objective of selling your other stuff is a crass and short-sighted way of doing things anyway. From what I'm hearing, short stories are good for:...

Thanks, Mike. I'm not disdaining short fiction at all, I'm just trying to figure out how short stories ought to play into the career trajectory of a working indie writer. So far, it seems to me that the best path is to focus most of your energy on producing longer stuff like novels, opting to self-p...

What about selling self-published books to readers, though? I get the sense that the segment of the overall Science Fiction readership that regularly reads short stories is pretty small. Editors at the big publishing houses might use short stories as a filter, but I don't get the sense that most rea...

Thanks, Mike Resnick. That's the sense that I get: that aside from craft and artistic development, short stories are better for gaining recognition and building a reputation than for selling other books.

I'm primarily a self-published indie author, with about twenty books up so far (I expect to pro-out of the WOTF contest within about a year). Writing is my primary career--I'm in this to make a living. So far, I've written primarily novels and novellas, but about a year ago I thought I'd work on my ...

I cannot believe that this thread is still running.

Great! Where can we submit? :D

I've heard that that's a great way to motivate yourself: get into a friendly competition with others (or yourself) to see who can have the most submissions out at a time. At first, it's a race to see who can write the most stories, but then you start to "lose" because they're actually sell...

Rejection, misplaced but now they found it.

Onward to glory!

Twenty-three stories? You, sir, are where I soon hope to be.

Saw that! It was a very interesting piece. Also made me very interested in reading some Amish sci-fi stories!