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Bad books on writing tell you to “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW”, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

Joe Haldeman (via rachelfershleiser)

I cannot reblog this enough, this is hilarious to me.

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George R. R. Martin everyone.

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Hi, do you know if any of the magazines from the masterlist you posted accepts work from writers thar live outside the U.S.?

As far as I know, as long as your submission is in English I can’t imagine they would reject you based on country of origin. I didn’t see anything about it in any of their rules but I don’t see that it would be relevant.

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I saw you posted a list of websites that take submissions and pay. I'm British and the websites were American. Are there any British websites you know of? Or can I submit to those websites anyway? :)

I don’t think it should make a difference where you’re from as long as you’re still submitting in English, especially since most of them are digital publications?

But if anyone knows of any UK publishing zines, please feel free to reblog this and add them or send me an ask!

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putthepromptsonpaper

“I’m not always going to be sitting around waiting for you to want me”

#sentence prompts #dialogue prompts #prompts

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“You’re pretty picky for someone about to die”

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I don't understand the people that are hyperproductive when they're manic. When I'm manic I spend two hours developing an alien species, researching the potential for faster than light travel, and trying to map out where fictional planets are in relation to one another instead of actually writing.

#writing #bipolar disorder

I'm looking into doing some freelance writing. Do you have any advice, or maybe things i should look out for?

I haven't gotten anything published my self so far (I'm just now trying to break from fanfiction back into original fiction), but the biggest thing I'd watch out for is vanity presses. While occasionally some major literary magazines will ask you to pay a nominal fee to have your work read, most publishers -- short of a few highly selective and prestigious ones like The New Yorker -- will pay YOU for publishing, not the other way around. There are some vanity presses (Poetry.com is a notorious one) that will tell you that you've been "selected" to appear in one of their anthologies but then ask you to pay for it. Since places like that don't make you any profit or give you anything that you can add to a resume/cover letter, they're basically a waste of time. When you're planning which publishers to submit to, go through and read some of the things they've accepted first. (A lot of them have things online for free. If not you can usually get a digital copy of an issue for a few dollars.) If you wrote an epic high fantasy story, you probably wouldn't want to send it to Asimov's, for example, no matter how good it is.And definitely make sure you have someone edit your work before you submit it. Literary magazines don't want your first draft, and continuity or grammatical errors are going to decrease your chance for getting published. I'd honestly say have no less than two people other than yourself read over it and give you honest, constructive feedback. And I've found one of the things that helps me a lot is to have a circle of friends who write. Talking to people about writing, trading ideas, reading each other's works, it helps to keep you inspired. More than anything, though, keep writing. Set daily or weekly goals. Tell yourself how much you're going to write. Tell yourself how often you're going to submit to publishers. And no matter how many rejections you might get, keep submitting. If you get a rejection on a story you love, polish it a little and send it to a different magazine. Keep writing. Keep submitting. Remember that everyone, no matter how good they are, gets rejected.