Comments on: Three sentences off…

By: JS Bangs

JS Bangs — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:54:41 +0000

Didn’t seem like spam trouble to me, unless it’s such severe spam trouble that your server is horked. Ah, well. At least the pingback went through.

By: Vy

Vy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:58:37 +0000

Hmm. I’ve been having spam trouble and this might be more. Sorry!

By: Re: Three Sentences Off « Infinite Recursion

Re: Three Sentences Off « Infinite Recursion — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:31:43 +0000

[...] 13, 2008 at 6:31 am (1) Vylar Kaftan wrote an interesting post about stories that are three sentences off. I was going to leave her a nice comment, but the server she’s hosted on ate one comment, and [...]

By: Vy

Vy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:57:24 +0000

Sometimes I can sell them at 99%. I even get great reviews and so forth. But more often I get what’s become my most common rejection–the “so close but not quite, please send us something else.” This is why I really want to see those last few changes before I submit.

By: Gray Rinehart

Gray Rinehart — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:11:40 +0000

I consider attention to detail a good thing, but I wonder, are you still selling the stories at the 99% point, or not until you get them to 99.999%?

Personally, I look forward to the day when my stories are ONLY three sentences off.