3/22/2015 2 Comments Bad Writing Monday: My ownA couple of NaNoWriMos ago I saw a link to Wattpad in the sponser area, so I went and joined up and forgot about it. Recently I went back, read some stuff, hated most of it (none of it was in previous Bad Writing Monday posts, I save my published ire for works authors have the gall to ask money for.) but thought it might be a place to test stuff.
What started as a "how does that even work?" from a short story on Amazon is turning into a story I rather like. Then I saw an anthology call from Less Than Three Press that looked sorta just a few steps sideways from Prince. Checking through my Kindle list, I found I've read - and more importantly, liked - several offerings from this publisher. I mention that I liked what I read because I do like to check out small presses before deciding if my work might be a fit - only logical, yes? And one I checked out just before (insert December holiday of preference) was so utterly terrible, in a "this romance is totally unbelievable" and "this character is so inconsistent" way... (she's never taken a cruise before, but she knows and has participated in cruise swingers clubs....? She's never had sex with a woman before, except.. twice?) I know small presses by definition don't have lots of money to spend on staffing, but isn't editing more than just spell and grammar checks? Are my expectations too high? But yes, this week, I'm working on my own words, girded with lots of ideas of what not to do.
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davidd
3/26/2015 02:39:38 pm
Of course your expectations are too high! This is the 21st century! Nobody is constrained by, y'know, constraints anymore: constraints like spelling, grammar, punctuation, or actually making sense. It's all about FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, man! Well, that, and making big money fast. If you read any of the thousand ebooks on how to sell a million ebooks, you'll notice one theme running through them: write fast, publish, and move on to the next thing. Create a "catalog" as quickly as you can. The "shelf life" of newly published works is only 8 weeks or less, so you should be posting... I mean publishing... something new in intervals less than that in order to keep the momentum going.
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Syd
3/27/2015 06:17:11 am
*I* could be a small press, but I still have zero marketing skills, so I could not sell other people's work, along with not selling mine. Although they would be edited... ;)
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