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I have over forty active stories. Experience has taught me the wisdom of Heinlein's Rule ' Keep it on the market until it sells.' Ah, that'll do it. I probably also need to reduce the turnaround on my demoralized, "nobody will ever love this story" period following a rejection. This is th...

Ishmael wrote:I have over forty active stories. Experience has taught me the wisdom of Heinlein's Rule 'Keep it on the market until it sells.'

Ah, that'll do it. I probably also need to reduce the turnaround on my demoralized, "nobody will ever love this story" period following a rejection.

I don't really see it as aiming for rejections; rejections are just an inevitable consequence of voluminous submissions. I've noted this on another thread, but it's relevant here. Last year I made a neat round 300 submissions, garnering 9 acceptances and 267 rejections, of which 48 were personal. I...

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A little late to the party here, but I'm going to MidAmeriCon next week and super excited! I'm also finishing the first draft of my book within the next week!

Thanks, everybody! Definitely a lot of food for thought. Looking over previous winners already tempered my expectations for the contest, driving me to consider it equivalent to a sale (which after reading the responses here seems to be the right approach). So to sum up the responses: - Continue to w...

[Advice from previous finalists and published authors particularly wanted] After hearing that I was the first-place finalist for Q1, my main thought was: "Well, guess I'd better finish that novel." But there's more to that, isn't there? With three more quarters to go until Volume 33 comes ...

Oh, how could I forget?! Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook! I really loved that one, it's packed with exercises and examples and the artwork is jawdropping. My pick for sure! I find that books about "writing" never inspire me so much as something like Wonderbook, which is basically pure imagin...

I should clarify that I don't mind the title, but I don't think it's an asset to the show; I know easily a half-dozen people who had to be persuaded pretty intently to watch the show (even if they ended up loving it), because the title put them off. I think it creates a very generic initial impressi...

Yeah, best of both worlds. I think of titles which seem to have almost nothing to do with the material they reference, even in retrospect, and which can even push people away (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), and titles which seem compelling in advance and rich in retrospect (Tuck Everlasting), a...

My titles tend to make more sense after finishing the story. They also usually have to do with the ending. Like, "Ah, that title makes sense now." Not sure that's the best idea, but the intent is for it to be a mental bonus that adds to the story after its been read. Personally speaking, ...

I've noticed that my titles tend to be pretty generic, and I often don't reconsider them if the story or its needs change while I'm writing it. For example, my HM submission last year was a thriller about an android blackmailing a corporate executive so that he could afford to buy some more bodies t...

Honestly Bob, I think that Rick and Morty is one of the best things on TV right now of any genre.