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abracanabra) wrote2013-08-15 04:32 pm
abracanabra) wrote2013-08-15 04:32 pm
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Aswiebe's Market List Update 2013-08: Forming the Writing Habit
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The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 9/15/2013.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2013.html#081513
Editor's Note
So how do I (try to) do it?
1. Write a little bit at a time, every day, no matter what. This is not about you meeting your goal of 5,000 words a day. This is about you sitting down and writing every day. The amount you "have" to write should be so small that you can push it out in about fifteen minutes if you have to--and you'll feel silly about complaining that you don't want to do it, since it takes so little time. Freewriting is one way to do this.
2. Schedule it. Maybe this is the thing you do after dinner every day for an hour. Maybe it's what you do when the baby's napping every afternoon. Maybe it's what you do every morning on your bus ride in to work.
3. Reinforce it with little rituals that you won't ever feel reluctant about (this works best if you have a habit-forming personality). When you start, have a piece of chocolate, listen to a particular song or start up a playlist for the story you're currently writing. Be careful with this. You can become overly dependent on your starting rituals. You can also build up a ritual until it starts taking time away from your writing. Try to avoid that!
4. Keep writing on your mind when you're not writing. Maybe that means deliberately daydreaming about your story during a commercial break, or while you're walking the dog, or doing dishes. Keep a notebook around to scribble down notes whenever inspiration comes to you. Keeping the story always on your mind will help build momentum and make you *want* to keep the habit going.
A couple of articles on forming habits:
http://www.wikihow.com/Form-a-Good-Habit
http://zenhabits.net/habitses/
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What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I've wrapped up the last couple of podcasts from MinnSpec: the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers Group (switching to live streaming). The most recent episodes are about query letters and legal issues for authors. Read more and download the podcasts here: http://www.meetup.com/MinnSpec/messages/boards/thread/22420402
I've started getting up my notes on miscellaneous writingy bits that I found interesting or useful from the 4th Street Fantasy convention. Those can be found here: http://cloudscudding.livejournal.com/tag/4th%20street%20fantasy%202013
And last but not least, the horror anthology Eulogies II: Tales From the Cellar is now available for Kindle on Amazon.com (print version also available).
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/
* I Hate Strong Female Characters [characterization]: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/i-hate-strong-female-characters
* The Dyer of Lorbannery [plotting, editing]: http://papersky.livejournal.com/143157.html
* 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding [worldbuilding]: http://io9.com/7-deadly-sins-of-worldbuilding-998817537
* Of Authors and Indie Bookstores [writing business]: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/07/01/of-authors-and-indie-bookstores/
* A good Duotrope replacement [publishing industry]: http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/
Featured Market
The Midnight Diner is a hardboiled genre quarterly digital publication with a Christian slant.
No restrictions on God, no restrictions on reality. Didactic preachy works are dismissed unceremoniously; we’re looking for high quality works that are uncompromising in craft, content, and quality.
The Diner is not for children, or the faint of heart. Jesus dressed up as Thor, a whore who moonlights as an exorcist, a bouncer at a strip club, and more offbeat characters were regulars in the first edition of The Diner. This is not Guideposts or your Sunday School quarterly. Pansy, sanitized work will be unceremoniously dismissed. Do not send us work where gangbangers say things like, “Golly gee, Beav, what ever are we going to do with this swell crack?”
The Diner is not for children, or the faint of heart. Jesus dressed up as Thor, a whore who moonlights as an exorcist, a bouncer at a strip club, and more offbeat characters were regulars in the first edition of The Diner. This is not Guideposts or your Sunday School quarterly. Pansy, sanitized work will be unceremoniously dismissed. Do not send us work where gangbangers say things like, “Golly gee, Beav, what ever are we going to do with this swell crack?”
The basics: SF/F/Horror/Weird/Adventure, 3,000 - 6,000 words, pays "Exact figures forthcoming, but it’ll be a fair chunk of change," no reprints.
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 |
| Upgraded ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/15/2013 | SF themed to cyborgs | $0.0700 | http://neil-clarke.com/books/submission_guidelines/ | |
| Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) | F/SF/H | $0.0700 | http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm | |
| Dark Magazine, The | Magic realism, surrealism, steampunk, and dark F/SF | $0.0500 | http://horrordrive-in.com/smf/index.php?topic=14199.msg135254 | |
| Jamais Vu | Dark fiction, horror/thriller, cross-genre (with dark) | $0.0500 | http://www.jamaisvujournal.com/submissions.php | |
| SNAFU ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/1/2013 - 12/1/2013 | Military SF/H | $0.0300 | http://cohesionpress.com/submissions/anthologies/ | |
| Mythic Delirium | Poetry and speculative fiction | $0.0200 | http://mythicdelirium.com/?page_id=290 | |
| Midnight Diner, The | Genre fiction, esp. hardboiled/weird, with Christian angle--very open. | $0.0200 | http://www.themidnightdiner.com/submit-your-work/ | |
| Lakeside Circus | All spec-fic, weird fiction, etc. | $0.0100 | http://lakesidecircus.com/submissions/ | |
| Pinball | Literary speculative fiction | $0.0100 | http://thisispinball.com/submit/ | |
| Fox & Raven Fiction | F/SF/H and steampunk | $150.00 | http://foxandravenpublishing.tumblr.com/post/51988364070/submissions-guidelines-for-short-stories | |
| NewMyths | All spec-fic except graphic horror | $50.00 | http://www.newmyths.com/ | |
| Enter at Your Own Risk ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31 | Horror, themed | $40.00 | http://www.firbolgpublishing.com/ | |
| Enter At Your Own Risk ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31 | Themed | $40.00 | http://www.firbolgpublishing.com/submissions-enter-at-your-own-risk-volume-four/ | |
| Legend: True Stories from a Friend of a Friend ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2013 | All genres, themed to new myths/urban legends. | $25.00 | http://www.thunderdomemag.com/submissions/show-us/calls-for-submissions/470-call-for-submissions-legend-true-stories-from-a-friend-of-a-friend-print-anthology | |
| Strength from Within: Stories of Recovery ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2013 | Fantasy themed to recovery from addiction | $25.00 | http://strengthfromwithinanthology.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/strength-from-within-stories-of-recovery-to-fund-ashbury-house/ | |
| Spirits of St. Louis: Missouri Ghost Stories ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/30/2013 | Ghost stories | $25.00 | http://www.rockinghorsepublishing.com/submissions.html | |
| We Walk Invisible (Chupa Cabra House) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/1/2013 | All spec-fic, themed to invisibility | $25.00 | http://www.chupacabrahouse.com/search/label/submissions | |
| Horror Society Stories Vol. I ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/1/2013 | Horror | $20.00 | http://www.horrorsociety.com/2013/07/31/horror-society-announces-first-anthology-book-submission-guidelines-inside/ | |
| Future Crime (Sam's Dot Publishing) | SF crime | $20.00 | http://samsdot.com/guidelines/futurecrime/ | |
| Weird Westerns (Chupa Cabra House) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/01/2013 | Cross-genre with Western | $20.00 | http://www.chupacabrahouse.com/search/label/submissions | |
| Girl at the End of the World ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/31/2013 | SF/F/H and crime with female protagonists | $15.32 | http://www.foxspirit.co.uk/?page_id=371 | |
| Aoife's Kiss | SF/F | $15.00 | http://samsdot.com/guidelines/aoifes-kiss/ | |
| Cover of Darkness (Sam's Dot Publishing) | Horror and dark fantasy | $15.00 | http://samsdot.com/guidelines/cover-of-darkness/ | |
| Hungur Magazine (Sam's Dot Publishing) | Vampires, especially alien vampires | $12.00 | http://samsdot.com/guidelines/hungur/ | |
| Way of the Buffalo, The Podcast | All genres | $10.00 | http://wayofthebuffalopodcast.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html | |
| Fae (World Weaver Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2013 | Themed: fae | $10.00 | http://worldweaverpress.com/submissions/calls-for-anthologies/ | |
| In the Bloodstream ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/12/2013 | Dark horror and dark fantasy | $10.00 | http://mochamemoirspress.com/about/submission-guidelines/ | |
| Altered States ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED | Cyberpunk and sci-fi | $10.00 | http://www.meetup.com/MinnSpec/boards/view/viewthread?thread=36940162 | |
| Human Echoes Podcast | Horror, monthly themed contests | $10.00 | http://humanechoespodcast.blogspot.com/search/label/flash%20fiction | |
| Grim Corps | Literary spec-fic and horror | $10.00 | http://grimcorps.com/magazine/guidelines.htm | |
| Bizarro Bizarro (Bizarro Pulp Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/1/2013 | Bizarro fiction | $10.00 | http://bizarropulppress.com/submissions/ | |
| Youth Imagination | YA, all genres | $10.00 | http://www.youthimagination.org/index.php/Submission-Guidelines/submission-guidelines.html | |
| 4 Star Stories | SF/F | $10.00 | http://www.4starstories.com/submissions.htm | |
| Black Frost Media | Horror, dark fantasy, and dark weird | $10.00 | http://blackfrostmedia.com/submissions/ | |
| Fox Pockets | All spec-fic and crime, themed | $7.80 | http://www.foxspirit.co.uk/?page_id=371 | |
| Beyond Centauri | SF/F for children (age 10 and up) | $6.00 | http://samsdot.com/guidelines/beyond-centauri/ | |
| Dream Quarry, The | Spec-fic, themed | $5.00 | http://dreamquarry.net/query-and-submission-guidelines-for-volume-2/ | |
| WiFiles | All spec-fic | $3.00 | http://thewifiles.com/?page_id=8 | |
| Hydra (Random House) | SF/F/H | $0.00 | http://www.atrandom.com/eoriginals/submission.php | |
| Atomic Avarice - DEAD MARKET | All genres, themed to civil disobedience and revolutionary ideals | $0.0100 | http://www.atomicavarice.com/submit/ | |
| GUD Magazine - DEAD MARKET | all genres PDF pub | $0.0300 | http://www.gudmagazine.com/subs/submit.php | |
| Carnifex Press - DEAD MARKET | F & H anthologies | $0.0300 | http://www.carnifexpress.com/releases |
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