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heit 451, Something Wicked This does it take to get to that point? I Way Comes, or The Martian won't lie to you-a long time and a Chronicles if he had given up. All lot of work. If you want an easy of these works are now being used road to fame and fortune, get out of in collegiate and private writing writing. If you intend to stay in the seminars and workshops across the field, then we're back to the final nation and overseas. detail on how to get published. Both these writers, King and 1ohn W. Campbell, who is Bradbury, and many others, would quoted and hailed in On Writing never have been known to the genScience Fiction as one of SF's eral public without the one basic editors, gives the same advice I have tried to quality of perseverance, and a relate in so many c o n s id e ra b Ie paragraphs: amount of honesty "The reason in self-appraisal. 99% of aU stories written are not A writer must have the drive to tell a bought by editors is very simple. tale, write it down, and fmish it, then Editors never buy craft it to its fmest manuscripts that quality. All of this are left on the takes a fair amount closet shelf at of perseverance. home. If you take You must simply the time to write a yam,... send it in!" remember to carry this drive over to (Scithers 10) the final step, ~~~~~~~~~~ And that's which is getting published! It will what all successful writers have happen if you keep writing and done, and are doing! keep submitting. WORKS CITED The rejection slip you receive doesn't matter. If that letter 0. Collier & F.S. Leighton, doesn't say anything specific How to Write & Sell Your First about your story, then all it counts Novel, Cincinnati, OH: Writer's for is another certificate of time Digest Books, 1987 served and dues paid. It takes time G.H. Scithers, D. Schweitzer & 1. M. Ford, On Science Fiction and effort (and more time) to get to Writing, Philadelphia, PA: the point where your writing is Owlswick Press, 1981. good enough for an editor to at least make a comment, or give you 1.N. Williamson, How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & advice. From that point it's a short Science Fiction, Cincinnati, OH: hop to publication. Writer's Digest Books, 1987 How much time and effort 34
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