Oct 11, 2010 14:45
I'm tired of writing for $0.02 per word. It's not enough, and since I'm ghost writing it's not going to get me anywhere because I don't have anything to show for my work. So I decided to try writing something to submit to magazines. My first thought was, of course, to write short fiction. But it's probably easier to get non-fiction accepted. So anyway I decided the first step in this project is to do some research, so I went to Barnes and Noble and bought a bunch of magazines. What really surprised me is that there are two magazines that publish sci-fi short stories, and I could not find any other magazines that publish fiction. I figured every niche would have at least one magazine, and there would be something for general fiction too. A lot of authors I read about started out by getting short stories published in magazines. Admittedly, that was mostly sci-fi authors, but still. How do you get a book published? My ideas tend to be novel length, but how do you get someone to look at your novel?
Not that I object to writing science fiction. I actually have had an idea that was a short-story length idea rather than a novel idea for a sci-fi story floating around in my head for a while. THe only problem with this plan is its risk. I will probably have to write a bunch and not get paid for it. But man, if you can start writing for magazines you get paid approximately ten times what I get paid for writing now.