Pratchett Prize
Do you write "speculative fiction"?
Is your novel set on an alternate Earth?
Are you a current resident of the UK?
Could you use some money?
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Do you write "speculative fiction"?
Is your novel set on an alternate Earth?
Are you a current resident of the UK?
Could you use some money?
Okay, not the newest market any more, but they're still buying short fiction.
Specifically, Brain Harvest is buying ultra-short speculative fiction, preferably under 750 words. And, I think, they pay pretty well for that market.
"My crackpot theory is that people are losing their skill to express themselves, and they’re, in a way, farming that task out. If they want to express themselves they buy a song or they buy a greeting card that’s already processed by someone who’s kept that skill. We can’t express our own feelings anymore so we have to hire someone to do that." --Chuck Palahniuk
Timing, I have been told, is everything.
I believe that's mostly true, but, not, perhaps, in the way, I think, most people mean.
I'm tired of my life.
I've lost my idea net.
So, you've got a notebook. Great. Now what?
It seems every creative person, or every person who fancies themselves as creative, has a notebook. Mine happens to be a Moleskine, which are very popular, but yours may be something else. It doesn't matter, really, what it is, because they all serve the same purpose. To be filled with ideas for later development. Is it?
Yeah, you know which three little words I mean.
False starts are part of life.
Certainly, I've had a lot of projects that started with promise, but which never seemed to get completed. Others may have been started several times, or re-concieved mid-launch, such as this very website. Most of my half-baked, orphan works have either never seen the light of day or been safely scrubbed from the great digital subconscious before anyone else became aware of them, thankfully. But, there's a market that celebrates that bastard child of the creative process. An e-zine called The Orphan.