Comments on: Guest Post: When You Have a Chance to Meet an Editor, Say Hello! http://www.sfwa.org/2011/09/guest-post-when-you-have-a-chance-to-meet-an-editor-say-hello/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Wed, 22 May 2013 23:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: M. David Blake http://www.sfwa.org/2011/09/guest-post-when-you-have-a-chance-to-meet-an-editor-say-hello/#comment-78375 M. David Blake Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:37:01 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=19110#comment-78375 Visiting with David Hartwell is always an interesting experience. I was fortunate enough to spend a little time with him last year at Reconstruction/NASFiC10, and as we loaded books he offered one of the best snippets of advice I’ve ever received: “Master four thousand words, and you’ll be able to sell everything you can write.”

Of course, I haven’t “mastered” anything yet (and I am still a long way from doing so!), but bearing those words in mind did help me to start looking at short fiction through a more efficient lens.

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