Hello,
I'm a novice to the game. I haven't even sold my first piece of short fiction
yet, but my fingers are crossed that that might happen soon. Just wanted to say
that I'm fascinated by this discussion.
I've often wondered myself how people can churn out novel after novel, in
such a
Some people can churn out novel after novel because they want the
bucks--Walter Gibson (who wrote all those novels about The Shadow
under the name Maxwell Grant) was getting $750.00 a pop for each
one. This was at a time when a working man was making a dollar an
hour and thus $40.00 a week.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Carole McDonnell
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Rejections can be stressing, especially when one's purpose in life
depends on one's writing. Some people have too much riding on
their
novel -- it'll prove their intelligence, their wisdom, their
I used to save my rejections but I read about another writer who
did that for a while and then he threw them away because they
depressed him.
Let me ask you--if you could get all of your stories accepted, or
get all of them rejected which would you choose?
--- In
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Dr. Lester K Spence
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On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:10 AM, ravenadal wrote:
Interesting thing about the McArthur Genius awards...it does
seem to
stifle writers. Colson Whitehead won one and hasn't published a
novel
since. Part of
