Dale’s Comments (group member since Sep 15, 2017)

Dale’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

L.T. wrote: "Hi All!

This is an awesome idea. We follow many indie authors on Twitter and Instagram. Going through this post and following everyone on Twitter, Instagram and Goodreads.
Thanks so much for this!..."

Got you on Twitter and Goodreads.

I may be skewered for this one, but it's something I felt I needed to write. It took me two days to pull it together, which is a long time for me to spend on a Medium article. Here goes . . .

Unspinning Abortion: A Call For Honesty

D.J. wrote: "Thank you everyone. Well done Dale. I'm still not confident enough to join a thing and offer them articles.

The hardest bit is trying to find 2-3 things to write about each week."

Thank you. I don't think you have to write that much for most publications, although you'd have to check their guidelines. I think Writing Cooperative will drop you if you go 90 days without submitting anything, but that allows for a pretty slow pace. Lit Up doesn't seem to have any particular submission rate requirements, although they don't currently accept Partner Program submissions. I think they are working on changing that in the near future, although I'm not sure.

D.J. wrote: "Medium is sending me $34.06 this month. That's the most I've had so far. Thanks everyone who took the time to clap and interact with my posts."

Congratulations! I'm getting $22.93, plus whatever I get from The Writing Cooperative. I never know what that's going to be until it shows up. I think I have a shot at breaking $30 total this month, though.

Karen wrote: "That may have been me. Will try again."

I think it was. I just sent the story along. Thanks, and sorry about that!

In case you're not sick of this kind of thing by now, Ted and I both have an entry in this week's IU contest.

Read entries in the comments section here.

Vote for your favorite here.

Thanks!

Somebody sent me an email offering to read the story. Thank you, whoever you were! But alas, I accidentally blew away your email and don't know who you were anymore, so if you could kindly resend, I'll be more careful next time. Thank you, and sorry about that!

Having fun with something that annoys me: No, Cortana, I Don't Want To Talk To You

My new Writing Cooperative article: Organizing Your Fiction Series.

Would anyone out there be willing to read an SF short story I wrote and offer feedback on it? It's a tad over 10 pages long, not quite 2500 words. I plan on sending it around to SF magazines, but it's a somewhat unusual presentation, so I'd like to hear what a couple people think. If you're interested, please email me (if you have my address) or PM me with your address so I can send it to you. Thanks!

V.A. wrote: "Congrats! To everyone on their great accomplishments!!"

Thank you! On behalf of everyone. Sometimes I enjoy being presumptuous. ;-)

Christine wrote: "Congrats, Dale! I enjoyed it."

Thank you!

D.J. wrote: "Clapped"

Thank you!

One for the parents in the audience: How a Roadrunner Saved My Wife's Sanity.

I've submitted a story to Lit Up based on their June flash fiction prompt: Confession. This isn't a contest, they just supply prompts and ask for submissions

This one was interesting: pick a book at random from your bookshelves, open it to a random page, and then use the last sentence of the last paragraph on that page as your prompt. Because I wasn't at home at the time, I used my Amazon downloads list to make the selection. It ended up being a line from a story in Jill Kearney's The Dog Thief and Other Stories. I think it worked out rather well!

Carole wrote: "Congrats Dale!!!"

Thank you!

And congratulations to all the award-winners. (I've been a bit behind this week.)

Erica wrote: "Congrats, Dale! I just finished reading that one. :)"

Thank you!

My short story Running Down the Track has been selected for inclusion in Lit Up's new Stars page, which highlights their favorite stories.

Anna Faversham wrote: "Oh Dale, how awful that people go around messing up other people's good ideas/lives. What goes around comes around - to them I hope."

Yeah. Unfortunately that's a feature of the world we live in. It's a sort of arms race, with the "good guys" trying to defeat attacks and the "bad guys" trying to defeat security. I heard a snippet of a report on NPR the other morning about how kids are now using social media to share hacks for getting around parental controls. Good grief . . .

The Writing Cooperative has published my latest article, Everything Including the Kitchen Sink.