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thehomemaster posted:Maybe not 50%, but this is pretty useless: At this point someone could just tell you to eat a dick five thousand times and there wouldn't be a single superfluous word in their assessment.
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Thanks to whoever posted the Joust contest months ago, since I actually got published in it. Runner-up, but it was still my first publication, which is nice. Normally I don't bother. Professional editors are crazy thorough, it was great
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The Saddest Rhino posted:congrats dude! post the link when it's up because i like your writing This is it. Guiness13 posted:I just want to drop a general thanks to the posters in this thread. I just had my first story published in Under the Bed on fictionmagazines.com, and I'm stoked. I've absorbed a ton of advice here. I went back and read one of the first stories I wrote, and holy hell has there been progress. Looks like this is a good week for several people, well done.
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I write what I want when I want to because I have a desk job to take up the rest of my time, but I generally do find that good ideas, or at least the ones that give me a functional plot, give me a sort of "buzz" before I start working on anything. With longer-form works I need to repeat that process in pieces, but the principle's the same. I also never outline anything and just think about what I want to do and how to do it 'til it gives me a migraine but that is not advisable procedure for anyone. I like being a hobbyist. Prefer it to banging out millions of words of tepid porn with ever-shrinking profit margins, at least.
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:This advice is all really solid, but it does leave me with a question: do you not do second drafts? It sounds like you finish a first draft, give it the glaze/polish treatment, then move on to something new. Which is a rad way of churning out material, don't get me wrong, but I feel like it would take a lot more than just a first draft and a polish to actually get anything published unless you A) plotted really well, or B) are naturally talented at stringing a story along on the first go. He self-pubs, which runs by somewhat different rules than trad pub and is a dying market anyway.
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Present tense is generally inoffensive and even preferable if you want to convey a sense of immediacy or uncertainty about the future. On the other hand if you write a long-form story in second person I will destroy you.
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