tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post1668814647552863270..comments2024-02-05T10:41:31.777-05:00Comments on I Saw Lightning Fall: WSJ on The Death of SlushLoren Eatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-79013144334731237182010-01-22T08:45:38.213-05:002010-01-22T08:45:38.213-05:00If you build a big audience, publishers will want ...<i>If you build a big audience, publishers will want to pick you up.</i><br /><br />This, I think, is key. Success often can breed success. But a lot of writers seem to view the InterWebz (tm) as some magic bullet that will propel them to success. In reality, it requires just as much work as polishing a piece for the slush pile. Probably more.<br /><br />By the way, I'm a little over halfway through <i>Infected</i>. Very curious how Perry is going to pull out of this what with a busted achilles tendon and the Starting Five. Or maybe I should say <i>if</i>.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-22057311551297041882010-01-22T03:02:48.168-05:002010-01-22T03:02:48.168-05:00Screw the slush pile. The slush pile is about grov...Screw the slush pile. The slush pile is about groveling at the feet of the would-be taste makers, those that deem themselves the judges and experts on "what people want." Do you want to go through them, or do you want to connect to the end reader?<br /><br />The internet gives aspiring authors many ways to distribute fiction, find fans and build an audience. Most of the people reading these slush piles have little or no qualifications or expertise to judge fiction in the first place -- most of them are frustrated, wanna-b writers. Screw 'em. <br /><br />Make the best fiction you can, edit heavily, revise, revise, revise, then give it away as PDFs (like Cory Doctorow), in a blog (like David Wellington) or as a podcast (like myself, JC Hutchins and many others). <br /><br />If you build a big audience, publishers will want to pick you up.Scott Siglerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13724924650642233497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-90546395703561271872010-01-21T08:27:22.014-05:002010-01-21T08:27:22.014-05:00Will. Fight. Despair!Will. Fight. <i>Despair!</i>Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-41258159208526522022010-01-21T02:18:13.087-05:002010-01-21T02:18:13.087-05:00There's no need to surrender, really. Pessimi...There's no need to surrender, really. Pessimism wins in the end anyway.Scattercathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00302815654553659644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-29424819117691693192010-01-20T16:49:05.014-05:002010-01-20T16:49:05.014-05:00Uh, oh. Must not. Surrender. To pessimism!Uh, oh. Must not. Surrender. To pessimism!Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-63618762203372204192010-01-20T11:52:02.875-05:002010-01-20T11:52:02.875-05:00Things only get worse.Things only get worse.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com