http://www.sfwa.org/2012/07/guest-blog-post-in-praise-of-ripening-4/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Wed, 22 May 2013 23:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.sfwa.org/2012/07/guest-blog-post-in-praise-of-ripening-4/#comment-133711 Finding the happy medium where a story is good enough | M.H. Lee Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:28:37 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?guid=ae53e76a0a413c5395d2e40d76e593e2#comment-133711 [...] Yudkin on In Praise of Ripening “…most of us improve in writing, as in music or acting or gymnastics, only when we have [...]

]]> http://www.sfwa.org/2012/07/guest-blog-post-in-praise-of-ripening-4/#comment-133368 Sarah Stegall Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:41:38 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?guid=ae53e76a0a413c5395d2e40d76e593e2#comment-133368 The trouble with this traditionalist paradigm is that the game has changed. Check out the latest blogs on current trends in publishing contracts: non-compete clauses, e-rights grabs, abysmal “advances”, and the utter lack of marketing of new writers, and it’s clear that this model fails new writers (and most established ones). It’s all very well to pat new writers on the head and say “Be patient, dear, your day will come”, but the truth is that if and when they get noticed by Big Publishing, it’s not to their advantage.

]]> http://www.sfwa.org/2012/07/guest-blog-post-in-praise-of-ripening-4/#comment-133312 Mary C. Moore Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:09:02 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?guid=ae53e76a0a413c5395d2e40d76e593e2#comment-133312 Marcia, I couldn’t agree more. As an indie author who went through two years of polishing my novel before its release, I am struck again and again by comments, “your work has barely any typos,” meaning for indie readers, a lot of typos and grammatical errors have become the norm, not to mention underdeveloped plot and characters. It’s crazy to think about.

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