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@heckerboy said in #9:

You can ask chat gpt for help, I tested its capacities by asking it to write an entire short story yesterday, I made a small version of my story and asked it to expand in it, than made the modifications I wanted.

Good idea! I will try that when I get it fleshed out more.

@heckerboy said in #9: > You can ask chat gpt for help, I tested its capacities by asking it to write an entire short story yesterday, I made a small version of my story and asked it to expand in it, than made the modifications I wanted. Good idea! I will try that when I get it fleshed out more.

Ive written some short stories

i wrote about 40 pages of a scifi novel before giving up (temporarily, i might return to it)

Ive written some short stories i wrote about 40 pages of a scifi novel before giving up (temporarily, i might return to it)
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I wrote about 25,000 words of a detective novel a few years ago but never finished it as (stupidly) I hadn't really worked out what the end was before I started. I still have it and might go back to it at some point.

I wrote about 25,000 words of a detective novel a few years ago but never finished it as (stupidly) I hadn't really worked out what the end was before I started. I still have it and might go back to it at some point.

Playing with a western. It's a genre I enjoy and I'm trying to incorporate places I've actually been ( I'm in Arizona) and have always been interested in the history of the region both geologically and sociologically.
So from a purely amateur perspective,my advice is write about what you know about .

Playing with a western. It's a genre I enjoy and I'm trying to incorporate places I've actually been ( I'm in Arizona) and have always been interested in the history of the region both geologically and sociologically. So from a purely amateur perspective,my advice is write about what you know about .

@Dukedog said in #17:

Playing with a western. It's a genre I enjoy and I'm trying to incorporate places I've actually been ( I'm in Arizona) and have always been interested in the history of the region both geologically and sociologically.
So from a purely amateur perspective,my advice is write about what you know about .

I guess You have to give it a Shot ! ;).

@Dukedog said in #17: > Playing with a western. It's a genre I enjoy and I'm trying to incorporate places I've actually been ( I'm in Arizona) and have always been interested in the history of the region both geologically and sociologically. > So from a purely amateur perspective,my advice is write about what you know about . I guess You have to give it a Shot ! ;).

I wrote a short story about aliens attacking a base on the Moon. I was okay with it for a first attempt. Don't have the opportunity yet for the next story.

I wrote a short story about aliens attacking a base on the Moon. I was okay with it for a first attempt. Don't have the opportunity yet for the next story.

I sold two short stories back in the 1980's, one to Analog and one to Aboriginal Science Fiction. I wrote several serialized novellas that were published in my local newspaper. The novellas ran for about three years. Then I expanded one of the novellas into a novel and sent it to DAW Publishing. They kept it for 3 years before declining. I sent it to another publisher who kept it a year and a half before declining. Decided I needed an agent, so wrote three chapters and a synopsis and started shopping it around to agents. Found one interested, so I wrote the scifi/thriller novel and sent it to him. He didn't like all of the scifi elements in it and asked for a rewrite. I wrote it again, removing about half the scifi stuff, but he still said too much scifi, can you rewrite it? I declined. About this time, I started hanging out with two different groups of published authors and learned that if I had sold these novels I'd been working on, each would bring me somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,500. Stopped writing after that. Even the published authors I thought of as successful had full-time jobs in the real world because what they called "C" level authors never made much money off their work.

I sold two short stories back in the 1980's, one to Analog and one to Aboriginal Science Fiction. I wrote several serialized novellas that were published in my local newspaper. The novellas ran for about three years. Then I expanded one of the novellas into a novel and sent it to DAW Publishing. They kept it for 3 years before declining. I sent it to another publisher who kept it a year and a half before declining. Decided I needed an agent, so wrote three chapters and a synopsis and started shopping it around to agents. Found one interested, so I wrote the scifi/thriller novel and sent it to him. He didn't like all of the scifi elements in it and asked for a rewrite. I wrote it again, removing about half the scifi stuff, but he still said too much scifi, can you rewrite it? I declined. About this time, I started hanging out with two different groups of published authors and learned that if I had sold these novels I'd been working on, each would bring me somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,500. Stopped writing after that. Even the published authors I thought of as successful had full-time jobs in the real world because what they called "C" level authors never made much money off their work.

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