What do you think of my short story?

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11 May 2023, 7:13 pm

https://losinger.altervista.org/documen ... nomist.pdf


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13 May 2023, 11:51 pm

I honestly just had time to skim through it, but I liked what I read.
Do you have anything published?


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14 May 2023, 8:43 am

Thanks for skimming through!

I haven't published anything. Well, except for a lot of shite in the "scientific" literature.

https://losinger.altervista.org/publications.html

I just took a creative writing class at a community college, and this short story was one of my products.


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14 May 2023, 4:19 pm

Honey69 wrote:
Thanks for skimming through!

I haven't published anything. Well, except for a lot of shite in the "scientific" literature.

https://losinger.altervista.org/publications.html

I just took a creative writing class at a community college, and this short story was one of my products.


The best of luck with your creative writing. Perhaps you might be interested in self-publishing, which can be done very easily on Amazon. More than one of us here on WP have gone that route. Back in my college days, self-publishing had a bad rep, but these days it's gained more respect. That's especially since traditional, mainstream publishing has become more about being a business selling a product, rather than about the actual art. Best to steer clear of vanity press publishing, as those charlatans try to take advantage of writers by misrepresenting themselves as self-publishing.


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15 May 2023, 8:35 am

Thanks for the tips! If I write more, then I will look into Amazon.

Another challenge, I think, is that people, in general, aren't reading as much as they used to. With the computer age, we have a lot more distractions.

My teacher thought that my short story was good. I explored a lot of themes, from religion, to the academic publishing scam, to sexism, to farmers being potentially outnumbered by the scientists studying them.

For the time being, I have my website.


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