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abracanabra) wrote2012-06-15 10:05 am
abracanabra) wrote2012-06-15 10:05 am
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Aswiebe's Market List Update 2012-06
http://www.aswiebe.com/
The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 07/15/2012.
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Editor's Note
Do you think that you've run out of good story ideas? Do you feel like the Muse isn't talking to you anymore? Well, I have a counter-intuitive suggestion: stop writing.
Stop writing on an actual story or a project, that is. For a couple of years now, I've kept a freewriting journal. Every day, before I begin working on my current writing project, I freewrite for two minutes. No more, no less. I take inspiration from a song, a photograph, an interesting article, or even from google results for a random word. If I'm not going to be doing actual writing on a particular day, I still do those two minutes of freewriting. I've written a lot of useless crap during my freewriting, but I've also gotten more genuinely good story ideas than I will ever have time to write. And I've learned something interesting.
The quality of these story snippets is inversely proportional to the amount of actual writing that I've done recently. If I'm writing well on my other projects, maybe 1 out of 10 freewriting sessions produces a good story idea. If I'm bogged down in editing or in my day job, the result is a lot closer to 8 out of 10.
So if you feel like the well has run dry, perhaps it's time to try some no-pressure freewriting for just a couple of minutes a day--no longer--and to spend the rest of your "writing" time working on editing or market research or some other related task.
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
No new publications this month. I've been pretty busy with my serial story, Circus of Brass and Bone. So far I've written comfortably far ahead of where I need to be, but my edits are not keeping pace. Part of that is because I need to take out some things I revealed too early and rejigger the whole plot. Part of it is because plot and character movement means I need to rewrite details of my alternate Civil War history. I am not a history buff, so it requires unhappy amounts of research to keep this consistent!
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!
- Abra Staffin-Wiebe
Things Shiny or Useful
Archive of all shiny or useful links: http://www.aswiebe.com/
* Old Ways of Looking at Viewpoint [POV]: http://pcwrede.com/blog/old-ways-of-looking-at-viewpoint
* Old Ways of Looking at Plot [plotting]: http://pcwrede.com/blog/old-ways-of-looking-at-plot
* Storytelling mistakes [writing craft]: http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/5-story-mistakes-even-good-writers-make
* Story Rules [writing craft]: http://www.pixartouchbook.com/blog/2011/5/15/pixar-story-rules-one-version.html
* All types of publishers [publishing industry, self-publishing]: http://annerallen.blogspot.com/2012/05/who-are-big-six-what-does-indie-really.html
Featured Market
This is one for all my steampunk peeps! White Cat has a call out for a new pro-paying anthology, Airships & Automatons.
We seek steampunk stories featuring strong characters, exciting plotlines, and automatons and/or airships. We don’t want the latter to be mentioned in passing; they should be central to the plot. We aren’t shooting for any particular mood with this book. Dystopian, humorous, pulp, Lovecraftian, upbeat or dark— all have a place here. Please don’t feel constrained to write in a Victorian setting. It’s steampunk, push the boundaries.
The basics: steampunk, 4,500-5,500 words, $.05/word, reprints accepted, open until filled.
Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name | What they want | Pay Per Word – Fiction | Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest) | Website |
| Plasma Frequency Magazine | Science fiction, fantasy, and some horror | $0.0100 | http://www.plasmafrequencymagazine.com/index_files/guide.htm | |
| Epiphanist, The | Speculative literary fiction | $0.0020 | http://epiphanistzine.com/submissions/ | |
| Enchanted Conversation, The MONTHLY CONTEST | Fairytale-inspired | $25.00 | http://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2011/12/new-guidelines-for-ec.html | |
| Weird Fantasy Magazine | Offbeat fantasy fiction. | $25.00 | http://weirdfantasymag.blogspot.com/ | |
| Lontar | Fantasy and dark fantasy connected to Southeast Asia. No horror. | $19.61 | http://lontarjournal.submishmash.com/submit | |
| Forging Freedom ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 01/31/2013 | All genres, themed to freedom. | $10.00 | http://www.freedomforgepress.com/submission-guidelines/ | |
| Wicked Industries Magazine | Action and adventure, sci-fi, and horror. | $5.00 | http://www.wicked-industries.com/submit.html | |
| Solidarity Science Fiction | SF with optimistic realism | $5.00 | https://sites.google.com/site/solidaritysciencefiction/submission-guidelines | |
| Inkspill Magazine | All genres - literary and genre fiction. | $0.00 | http://www.inkspillmagazine.com/submissions/ | |
| Eulogies II: A Horror World Anthology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/1/12 | All horror | $0.0200 | http://www.cafedoom.com/forum/index.php?topic=4840.0 | |
| Chamberton Publishing Science Fiction/Fantasy ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 08/01/12 | All spec-fic | $50.00 | http://www.chambertonpublishing.com/Submissions_1M9L.html | |
| Deep Cuts ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/31/12 | Horror | $0.0500 | http://deepcuts.submishmash.com/submit/ | |
| Ticon4 | All spec-fic | $48.77 | http://ticon4.com/submission-guidelines-for-ticon4-com/ | |
| Dali-ances ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 08/31/12 | All spec-fic themed to Dali | $30.00 | http://www.obsolescent.info/submissions/daliances-the-salvador-dali-anthology/ | |
| The Lost: A Kingdom of Nothing ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 09/01/12 | Themed to characters who have lost everything. | $100.00 | http://galileogames.com/submissions/ | |
| Airships & Automatons ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED | Steampunk with automatons or airships. | $0.0500 | http://www.whitecatpublications.com/?p=1548 | |
| Crime Net ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/1/12 | SF mystery themed to cyber-crime | $15.38 | http://www.anachronpress.com/open-submissions-crime-net-crime-anthology/ | |
| Review Fuse Short Story Writing PERIODIC CONTESTS - DEAD MARKET | all genres | $50.00 | http://www.reviewfuse.com/blog/tag/writing-contest/ | |
| Hub Magazine - DEAD MARKET | Brit F SF Mag | $50.00 | http://www.hub-mag.co.uk/submissions.html | |
| OG's Speculative Fiction - DEAD MARKET | speculative fiction | $35.00 | htp://theopinionguy.com/submissions |
Aswiebe's Market List
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Links
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Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!
Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
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