SFFWorld Members big Blog thread

[Jo Zebedee]

Since I'm stuck in the joy that is the Hodderscape Open Submissions window, and am a veteran of such windows and subbing in general, for my sins, I talked about ways to cope:

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/on-submission-and-sanity.html

 

[kennychaffin]

Since I'm stuck in the joy that is the Hodderscape Open Submissions window, and am a veteran of such windows and subbing in general, for my sins, I talked about ways to cope:

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/on-submission-and-sanity.html

Good Post Jo. (p.s. there seems to be a problem with the url/last link in the piece.)

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Good Post Jo. (p.s. there seems to be a problem with the url/last link in the piece.)

Thanks, Kenny - that link is playing me up from time to time for some reason. I've changed to the Amazon US link, although I think it still needs to be highlighted. I'll have to mail Amazon about it....

 

[kennychaffin]

Thanks, Kenny - that link is playing me up from time to time for some reason. I've changed to the Amazon US link, although I think it still needs to be highlighted. I'll have to mail Amazon about it....

Well the link text/value itself seems to be fine, but it's just not 'clickable' -- my first guess is that it has something to do with it being the last thing on the page. Maybe try putting a few words or sentence after it and see what happens. Worth a shot.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Well the link text/value itself seems to be fine, but it's just not 'clickable' -- my first guess is that it has something to do with it being the last thing on the page. Maybe try putting a few words or sentence after it and see what happens. Worth a shot.

Thanks, Kenny, tried that and no good. Sad, too, since the blog had a serious number of hits!

 

[kennychaffin]

The Return - the story of a man and his father.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Nice, Kenny.

 

[Janne Wass]

Thank you for that link, Janne: I enjoyed the look through the website - i enjoy a good (or even a bad!) old movie, and there's lots there I didn't know about. I enjoyed reading about El Supersabio as I've never seen Cantinflas in anything other than Around the World in 80 Days! Good work: keep it up.

Thanks for taking the time, I'm glad you liked it!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Today I posted some tips for editing (and revising) your own work http://teresaedgertoneditor.com/on-writing-5-editing-your-own-work/

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Nice post, Teresa. (As someone at the receiving end of your editorial notes, it's very useful reading!)

I blogged about families in sci fi. I'm looking for more of them. Any recommends would be welcome:

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/where-are-all-sci-fi-families.html

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

C. J. Cherryh's Forty Thousand in Gehenna is about colonizing a planet and raising families. Her Chanur books are about a ship crewed by members of an extended family (not human, but the family dynamics are often similar). I think families may come up a lot in some of her series I am not so familiar with. They are there a lot in her Fantasy, so I assume it is much the same in her SF.

 

[N. E. White]

Hugh Howey's Molly Fyde series is all about family. It is young adult, though. Still, good stuff about what folks will do for family and friends (good and bad).

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Thank you both, I'll go off and explore (Cherryh has been on my tbr pile for a long time, I have no excuse except lack of time.)

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Me again. I was asked to share some of what I did this week to turn a promotional week into something that writing dreams are made of. Here it is:

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/and-then-i-woke-up-how-i-became-amazon.html

 

[kennychaffin]

Me again. I was asked to share some of what I did this week to turn a promotional week into something that writing dreams are made of. Here it is:

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/and-then-i-woke-up-how-i-became-amazon.html

Congratulations Jo!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I had a rant about what the market wants and why you should just write your own darn book:

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/writing-rules.html

 

[kennychaffin]

I had a rant about what the market wants and why you should just write your own darn book:

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/writing-rules.html

Good, I haven't read it yet, but I agree completely. Write your own book/work, don't try to write to the market or editors' tastes.
...
Now I've read it....most importantly....to me:

"....The readers don’t care about the number of books out this year, or whether a story conflicts with another. They just want a darn good story...."

Truth!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Good, I haven't read it yet, but I agree completely. Write your own book/work, don't try to write to the market or editors' tastes.

I think it might be a sign of maturity. I mean, I listen to my editors and my betas and I work with them. But I also try to stay true to what I want to do.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I think it is important to write in such a way that you will reach your readers, but not to chase the market (or them)!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

My blog is on the thorny question of whether or not we need agents in this changing world:

JoZebwrites: To agent or not to agent...

(Answer: it depends)