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I’ll wade in here too. I’m beginning work on expanding a chapter I wrote of a short story or novel in the short story course. It’s been on the back burner for some time and I’m excited to get back into it. Horses and girls, which may be my forte.
Joe,
I don’t have those options and I wonder if it is my MAC and Safari. I’ll try this in Firefox and see it is different.
SClearly I do not know/understand how to reply to someone’s thread or comment. All I see to do is to come to the bottom and reply to the entire topic. Help.
I have finally bit the bullet and submitted my Broken Faith novella to an online magazine, Platypus Press Shorts. I hope to hear back soon, but also note the response time could be longer than shorter. I will keep you posted and my thanks again to Nikita for beta reading for me.
Wow, Joe. This is terrible, but typical of Amazon as they “hold the power” over so many things digital. Ugh.
Nikita,
You are a wealth of information. If I can ever get off my duff and start digging, I know I’d be a much happier writer. Your insight on my novella has been wonderful and the resources you keep posting here are amazing.
Tell me what you did to begin, like day one.Nikita,
This is a great list and thank you. I’m curious about your pitches. How do you format them? If you’re pitching that much, I bet you’re getting good at it. I have some non-fiction I need to get to pitching.
SNikita,
I’d love you to take a look at my novella. How can I get it to you. I know how you feel about social media. I deal with Twitter, but that’s it.Nikita,
I think I need to spend a week with you to see what you do! It sounds like you know what you want and what you have to offer, you believe in it, and you get it done!Joe M,
Thanks for info on the Carver book and I guess I just need to pluck up more courage as I consider who to submit to! I mean they can only say no, right?!Thanks Joe,
I’ve been beefing up my Twitter presence by using #amwriting and #writingcommunity and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the vitality of the writers who are there. I read a lot of Tweets about what other writers are doing, what agents are saying, and what people are writing. It’s fascinating, but I also have to be careful that it doesn’t suck up too much time.
I’d been approached to beta read part of novel for another writer and I did and that was an interesting experience. That was how I discovered that kind of exchange was going on, so I posted a tweet that I was looking for some beta readers and I chose two people that I felt had some good integrity based on their tweets. We exchanged emails addresses through the twitter direct message avenue. One got the work back to me within 48 hours, but I felt like it was all too good. She didn’t feel I needed to change anything. I’m still waiting for the second one.
