[Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!

[Ken Hess]

Evan,

I'll pre-reject it. OK, your worst fears are real. Now finish that play so
I can make it into a short film.  ;-)

After I unreject it, of course.

Thanks,

Ken

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On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:02 PM Evan Schuman <eschuman at thecontentfirm.com>
wrote:

> Agreed. I have been working on a play for about two years now … and it’s
> perpetually in the “70 percent done” stage. (No pun intended.) Why? I know
> that no one can reject my play until it’s finished, so by not finishing, I
> have successfully avoided rejection.
>
> And if that’s not the most pathetic excuse for not finishing something,
> I’m not working hard enough.
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> *From:* Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> *On Behalf Of *Barbara
> Krasnoff
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 09, 2019 3:48 PM
> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> *Cc:* Dennis Fowler <dennisf63 at wildblue.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!
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> Congratulations! (I never realized that Computer Shopper was making anyone
> rich...)
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> Writing longform is a real talent. I've never been able to master it -- it
> takes me forever just to get down one lousy short story...
>
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> Barbara
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> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:20 PM Lynn Greiner <lists at itwriter.com> wrote:
>
> 9 days? That’s impressive. For how many words? Hubby’s record was 14 days
> for his NaNo 50K words, I think, but then there was a ton of editing. I
> beta read, but my sister acts as ruthless editor, and they have some grand
> battles when she comes to visit. Serves them both right – she got him to
> sign up for NaNo the first time during a Scotch-fueled Saturday evening
> debate over something or other. I, OTOH, was drinking cognac and stayed out
> of it 😊
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> *From:* Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> *On Behalf Of *Dennisf63
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:01 PM
> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!
>
>
>
> I do want to make it very clear that this is the FIRST book I have ever
> self published. Most of them were flat fee, no royalties.
>
> That said, back in the 70s it was a lot easier to get published, really by
> a publisher published, than it is today. I got paid $500 for my first porn
> novel, got up to as much as $750 for them. I typed the first draft, my wife
> edited and retyped a clean copy and off it went. I even had one editor that
> paid me in advance once when $$ were tight.
>
> Sidebar: The fringe benefits of that arrangement made for a lively
> marriage, but it was all fiction. Regardless of what I wrote Peggy and I
> were together for 50 years and we never strayed.
> I did have a rather liberated old aunt I sent a book to and she said we
> must have a very interesting marriage. We did, just the two of us.
>
> Fastest turnaround? I think it was maybe 9 days from my first key stroke
> to the post office.
>
> On 01/09/2019 02:23 PM, Christine Hall wrote:
>
> On 1/9/19 2:02 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote:
>
> My husband has self-published 6 novels - it's quite do-able. The hard part
> is generating the words (he got his kick in the pants via NaNoWriMo).
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