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Author: Anthony Ravenscroft
Date: 11-26-09 14:15
For a few years, I put out a fanzine with 50% fiction, & offered all of a half-cent a word.
Within two months, I was utterly swamped!! Most of it was at least good, & one I bought was from Anke Kriske, who'd just been published in Twilight Zone.
But the difference is that I bought rights for a 1,000-copy limit. No reprint or reuse or anthology rights. When you write for the Internet, it's gone for good, & if the editor takes a dull machete after it people are going to forever be able to associate the butchery with your abilities.
If you can just crank stuff out, & want to get practice at tightening your stream-of-counsciousness writing, you could do worse than throw it at the virtual wall to see what sticks, then parlay the decent stuff into better-paying assignments -- paid work is paid work, after all. (Might be an improvement over forum posts, anyway.) At least it's not bad porn. But you might want to think about working under a pseudonym.
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