Lecture Lesson for the week of July 22nd, 2019

[Sunny Irene Roth]

Hi all,

Here is your lesson for this week. You will get a chance to draft your story all in one sitting.

Please block out some time to write for about 5 hours or so.

Some of you have been asking about where to send your stories. Well there is a lot of choice! This is great news! And many of these publications accept and even encourage new writers to submit their work.

I have found a website which will give you 23 ideas on where to pitch your stories. It is at this URL: Where to Submit Short Stories: 25 Magazines and Online Publications

Have fun writing your story and choosing three to five places to send it to once it is written and finalized.

~ Irene S. Roth

 

[Mel Corbett]

I’d better post this now, or I’ll fiddle with it the rest of the week instead of working on my WIP. This is for a Wild West + aliens anthology that’s looking for a story between 5-7k. Though, they might have wanted something a bit more lighthearted. And I’m not 100% sure of the ending. I don’t think it has the impact I want yet. I want to show Etta overcoming her pride...

Also, some other places to look for markets are Ralan’s Webstravaganza, the submission grinder, and submishmash.

 

[Sunny Irene Roth]

Hi Mel!

Thank you! I will read it over tomorrow and send my comments.

It is far better to simply post your short story. It will be GREAT!

Take care,
Irene S. Roth

 

[Sunny Irene Roth]

Hi Mel!

Wow! This is a very powerful story. It has all the flare and depth that is necessary to really make the story great!

It is a bit on the longer side. Is there a place that you have to send this story? I ask because it is ready to go. There are no pacing problems or structural problems at all. It is a well-crafted story that I would love to see published.

Let me know what your ideas are for pitching this story.

Take care, and GREAT GREAT job!!!!!

Irene!

 

[Mel Corbett]

Thank you Irene! I’ll be submitting it shortly then.

I found a call for a specific anthology that I wrote it too. They were looking for stories from 5-7 thousand words about aliens in the old west with the words “Reach for the sky somewhere” in the story. If it doesn’t land there, I will try submitting it to the Escape Pod podcast, though for there I might need to cut a couple hundred words since it looks like their ceiling is 6000 words.

 

[Nikki Weston]

Mel, I'm a bit up to my eyes at the moment, but I just wanted to drop you a mail to say congratulations on writing this. Hope to get a chance to read it sometime, but for now, well done on the writing and on the subbing plans. Let us know how it goes.

Nikki.

 

[Nikki Weston]

Hoping to get my own short story finished in the next few days, the hard bit's done, it's drafted but I need 2-3 hours edit to weed out superfluous rubbish, get the event order correct (I just write stuff down in whatever order it comes, things are rarely linear, so I do teh surgery to realign, LOL!!!) 2 hours would do a lot, and I've a home in mind for it too (the People's Friend, a UK magazine).