I recently sent out a dark fantasy short story, 10,000 words. And yes, the magazine takes them that long, the editor sent me a very nice letter back suggesting some changes and then asked me to resubmit for reconsideration. While helpful and encouraging it was one of those vague letters suggesting basically a re-write to make the story tighter and to omit some wording mistakes.
I have gotten almost through it and am looking for some readers to read through and see what you think, and to make any suggestions. I will be running it through my crit group at some point, but would like to have an early re-write draft run through, then run it though them after I consider the crits I get from any of you.
It’s a very dark story folks. So that’s why I am asking for a few readers who will not be offended by a very dark story. Plus, 10,000 words is a bit more than what people normally do here.
Shawn
Posted by Hildy9595 (Member # 1489) on :
I'm a fan of the dark myself. Feel free to send to me at hildy9595@aol.com.
Posted by tamalynn (Member # 1304) on :
I'd like to give your story a shot. It might take about a week for me to get back to you, if that's okay.
My email's in the profile thing...
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
I'll read it, and make comments (bet you couldn't guess that I would make comments, could you? ).
Posted by srhowen (Member # 462) on :
Thanks, folks, I will send it out on Monday. Have a few things I need to put in the computer version out of my hand edit.
Shawn
I ended up reformating my hard drive, not fun. I will send it out as soon as I enter the edits that I lost int he crash. Today I hope. Wed.
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