Re: Erosion

"obilon" <lcgd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I also want to add that who hasn't thought, "I'm going to go out an
publish the damn thing myself!"

Well, actually...

<raises hand>

That is, if you're talking about anything that could theoretically be sold
to a real publisher, i.e., actual original stories rather than fan-fic or
gaming notes. (Until just now, I'd completely forgotten about the
self-published game-events writeup I did when I wound up the Evenar
game...possibly because I only printed twenty copies, a good while back.)

I don't get validation out of printing up my own stuff and selling it -- not
validation of my writing, anyway. It might be a validation of my sales
skills, if I had any. And since I've always been well aware of the amount
of work and expense that I'd have to put in to hawk my own stuff -- always,
even back in 7th grade when I started writing -- I never considered
self-publishing for my fiction, even for a minute.

But that's me. You've made different choices, for different reasons...*and
you don't have to justify them.* You also don't have to convince everyone
else that they were good choices, which is a good thing because on this
newsgroup, trying to do that will very likely only frustrate you. It's also
not a terribly good idea to make assumptions about the way everyone else
thinks, especially here, where we have participants from a wide variety of
cultures and backgrounds and experience levels.

You might want to consider discussing something else, or at least a
different aspect of what you are doing. Several people here have just
published first-novels, and are as interested as you are in promoting them;
trading tips on how to go about it would be a valuable contribution. Just
how did you go about arranging that interview or whatever it was?
Alternatively, there are the questions of what you are writing *now*, what
problems (if any) you are having with it, and which specific aspects of your
writing you think can be improved.

I also notice that you haven't been participating in any of the other
threads in the group. I've seen this before, particularly with people
posting from Google, and I'm wondering if, perhaps, you're only following
this one thread and not actually reading the whole newsgroup? If so, is
that a deliberate choice to cut down on the time you spend reading groups,
or is it happening because of some quirk of Google that makes it easier to
just follow one thread than to get at the whole newsgroup? I don't use
Google, so I'm not clear on how it works, but I occasionally have cause to
recommend it to people as a way in to news-reading, and I'd like to be able
to warn them of potential pitfalls and/or ways around them.

Patricia C. Wrede


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