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wow, why do you have such an attitude towards me?

because you are cancer incarnated in human form

By which I mean you have absolutely no idea what sarcasm is. To make it abundantly clear: I wasn't being serious, I was taking the piss out of you beating yourself up and calling yourself selfish for an honest mistake.

the attitude is still there. i knew you'd use the sarcasm/joking defense.

i hope i don't have to run into you, again, in the future

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One of the coolest things about self-publishing is that you can publish whatever the fuck you want to. It doesn't have to be a calculated career move, vetted by a publishing firm. Taaj wrote these, and wanted to share her work, so she's put it up for free and has told us about it because we've known her for ages. Somehow, I doubt being a financial success is at the top of her priority list with this one, so maybe tone down the criticism a bit, hm? Try reading the stories she's giving you for free, and maybe share your thoughts about those, rather than having a go at someone who's writing and self-publishing for pleasure, not gain, and is just sharing that with us.

You know that's actually a good point.

Sorry about that, Taaj.

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I'd be down for organizing this if people were interested.

I'd do it. Might be nice to throw my stuff in a thing. I could be all like "Oh yeah I've been in a short story anthology before." and the publishing companies will be all like "Oh that's nice which one?" and then I'll run away in fear and start crying in a dark corner in a shady-looking alley.

But seriously, I'd totally do this if people are interested. It's a nice idea.

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Mercy

HEY
i was thinking about a short story anthology too, open to submission for everyone who has an account on this website

basically the purpose of this anthology would be to build up hype for the website and the people on the website. it would not be for profit, but when the anthology is finished, we'd sell it for 99 cents on amazon (the lowest price possible) and any income we make from that, we would give it to the authors whose submissions we've accepted by proportion of their word count out of the total word count

so if we make 10 dollars the first month (that means about 30 people bought it that month*), we would give one dollar to the person whose word count is 10% of the total word count

* why 30 ppl? at 99 cents a sell, we would receive 33 cents per purchase, so 30 people buying it would equate to 10 dollars

i don't think we'll make much money from it because of two reasons
1) we'll have submissions from all over the place. ie: historical romance, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, science fiction and fantasy, etc
2) the level of expertise in the stories themselves will not be professional grade. we're basically talking about random people from all over the world who aren't professional authors. the only good thing we know for a fact is that everyone will have significant writing experience (since everyone is play-by-post roleplayer) although that doesn't mean we'll have fiction writing experience

anyway, here's how i propose how the work will be divided.

we'll need editors, a cover artist (we can ask for submissions, and we'll say that we won't pay for the art -- this can change of course), authors (duh)

and that's it

editors will be divided into several genres:
science fiction and fantasy
romance
history
anime
general literature (like modern urban)
and whatever we'll need

the cover artist is very important because the cover is very important to how well a book/anthology sells on amazon. word of mouth is important, too. the blurb is important as well. the title. and the market of buyers who will actually buy something like this is important (i don't think there'll be many except maybe ourselves ... but this is debatable)

we will need experienced editors to make this work, who are willing to work with the submissions to make them best quality. even then, i doubt we'll make 200 dollars overall. anthologies just don't work well (especially one with such a vast spread of material over all genres) and the other reason anthologies don't work as well as novels is because there will be so many different problems and characters. in a novel, you have a single main problem and some characters which you will follow throughout the novel. in an anthology, you will have many different problems and characters that it'll be difficult for the reader to latch on to others besides the one that made him/her buy the anthology.

we'll need an overall editer (main editor), and then editors for the genres

i am not a skilled editor. I'm a semi skilled writer. but i'm willing to volunteer to edit the science fiction and fantasy portion of this anthology

what does everyone think?

basically, editors and the cover artist receive no money, but the authors would

authors can submit whole-length novels as well. this anthology will be in electronic form so it doesn't have a size limitation

or we could go free and not charge any money to download the book (actually, i think that's a better idea)

either way, we'll need editors for the different sections/genres, because knowing what works in one genre is different from knowing what will work in another

@Lunamaria I don't care much about making money etc. but as a writer I think it would be fun for the sake of practice and experience. You're getting kind of fancy asking for pro editors, since this isn't really a pro effort, I think it'd be fine if we just proofread each other's stuff before publishing. But yeah, other than that I'd be down to give it a go.

I'd be in to do something like this. I dunno about having a cut of the profit though, I'd prefer the people who do the most work to get my half of the share as I'd probably end up writing the smallest story ha ha

Ok

@Lunamaria I don't care much about making money etc. but as a writer I think it would be fun for the sake of practice and experience. You're getting kind of fancy asking for pro editors, since this isn't really a pro effort, I think it'd be fine if we just proofread each other's stuff before publishing. But yeah, other than that I'd be down to give it a go.

Ok. I guess I was too fancy. I don't think a pro editor will magically appear either. We'll just have ppl look other each other's stuff like you said. But we definitely need to divide the work into sections, genres.

Whatever.

I'd be in to do something like this. I dunno about having a cut of the profit though, I'd prefer the people who do the most work to get my half of the share as I'd probably end up writing the smallest story ha ha

It'll be free. Free stuff gets downloaded a lot. Very hype

Cool. So how do you envision the submission process?

what does everyone think?

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Cool. So how do you envision the submission process?

I don't know. I was very interested in this project because I actually wanted to edit works. I wanted to see what being an editor was like.

I guess the submission process will be easy. We will post this idea at the right place and we'll ask in the thread for works and details about it. Genre, title, if you have someone to proofread your stuff

A deadline will be good. Maybe in two months

The problem is, what do you do when you encounter trash? One person's trash is another person's treasure.

I don't know. Im sorry if it looks like I hijacked the position of organizing this. If any of the other ppl who volunteered for this position... want it. That's fine.

I guess we'll still need editors. Someone to make sure the work is readable quality. Or to work with the author if it's not. Since this is nonprofit, we can have as much stuff in it as possible. No rejections I guess. Send up to 2 short stories/ works as you want.

I want to be the editor...

Oh, I remember something. One time there was a similar idea on another roleplaying website. The submission process went like this. There three or four board members who looked at evry submission and as long two of them accepted the submission, it was accepted.

Don't know if that'll work here.

What do you all think the submission process should be like? Ideas?? What do you think about the board idea?

So much thought going into something as simple as "Can my story be in the anthology? <story>" "Yes/No"

So much thought going into something as simple as "Can my story be in the anthology? <story>" "Yes/No"

We don't want to end up publishing a greentext.

I'd suggest that the editors be the ones who decide, not just for their section, but the entire anthology. Majority wins (or maybe 60-75 percent or something).

This is making me really excited, I really hope we get this off the ground!

Lel.