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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > Publishing Short Fiction: The Megathread
 
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Ironic Twist
Aug 3, 2008

I'm bokeh, you're bokeh
 Wonderful thread, GP, and I wanted to add: there is an importance to reading your market, and reading literary journals in general.

Consider it market research, but also market research that helps you improve at marketing whatever you're marketing, and market research that improves the marketplace in general. Sure, you could carpetbomb ten random journals with your submissions in order to get something published, but reading one or two stories from a potential journal:

  • doesn't take a lot of time, if the stories are under 3K words,
  • will give you a much better idea of the appropriateness of your story than a journal's "About" section,
  • will probably enhance your perception of what a successful short story should be, at least for that particular journal, and
  • will help you get more familiar with the market in general.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to be Hyper-Driven towards Submitting and Shopping Around As Many Stories As You Can without reading them as well. You're submitting your work with the intention that someone will read it, so why not be that someone for other authors?

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