Argh, I agree completely! I've read some published stuff just today that made me go "Bwuh? This is AWFUL. My flist would thwap the hell out of me if I wrote something with a premise this frelling flimsy."
As for "no one wanting short stories," that's SO not true, especially in the SF/F/H genres. Magazine after magazine pays good money for good writing, and there's plenty of others that pay not as much, but it's better than a sharp stick in the eye. The submission process has gotten a little more complicated than it was in the past, with the advent of email and the fact that everyone wants a slightly different format, it seems, but no one ever said that this was going to be effortless.
The only ones keeping us down is us and our own self-doubts.
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Date: 2007-04-28 09:12 pm (UTC)As for "no one wanting short stories," that's SO not true, especially in the SF/F/H genres. Magazine after magazine pays good money for good writing, and there's plenty of others that pay not as much, but it's better than a sharp stick in the eye. The submission process has gotten a little more complicated than it was in the past, with the advent of email and the fact that everyone wants a slightly different format, it seems, but no one ever said that this was going to be effortless.
The only ones keeping us down is us and our own self-doubts.