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Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
I'm a writer first and an editor second ... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
I'm always trolling for trivia.
It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
