{"id":5290,"date":"2011-06-23T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T04:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2011-06-23T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T04:51:13","slug":"hmm-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/hmm-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmm…short stories?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kris Rusch has another excellent Thursday post<\/a> up on her blog, and this one deals with the effect of the ebook revolution on the short story format.\u00a0 Synopsis: short stories stand to EXPLODE in the next few years, and this is good for everybody, especially indie writers.<\/p>\n

Getting a story published in a magazine 1) builds a writer’s cred, 2) attracts new readers to the writer’s other works, and 3) pays decently well without giving up copyright for longer than a couple of years.\u00a0 Basically, it’s like getting paid to advertise.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, I’m not much of a short story writer, but if Kris’s predictions are right (and they sure make a lot of sense), I might have to take some time and rework my short form game.<\/p>\n

To start, I should probably read short stories voraciously.\u00a0 Fortunately, I have like twenty back issues of Leading Edge<\/em> on my shelf (the best short story I have ever read is “When She Grows a Soul” by Patrick Weekes in issue 46; I reread it on my lunch break today and it made me cry.\u00a0 Seriously).\u00a0 I’ve also subscribed to Clarkesworld <\/em>magazine<\/a>, which is only $1.99 per month on the Kindle.<\/p>\n

Once I’ve finished the current draft of Desert Stars<\/em>, I may or may not take off some time to focus on writing short fiction.\u00a0 I’m a little hesitant to do that, though; novels are my first love, and will probably be my bread and butter as this writing career takes off.\u00a0 Still, I need a lot of work on my short form, so maybe it would be worth taking a month or so…not sure yet.<\/p>\n

In any case, I discovered via the Kindle Boards that if you release an ebook\/estory for free on a competing vendor’s site, Amazon will price match and drop the price to free.\u00a0 Since I probably won’t be able to sell the short stories I’ve epublished, I figure I ought to give that a try.\u00a0 I never really planned to make much money off of them, and “selling” them for free will hopefully attract readers who will buy my novels.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I really should get back to writing.\u00a0 Whether novels or short stories, my bread and butter lies with putting words to paper–electronic or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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