A writer's look at the writing industry and the Internet.

Last night I went through
the writing markets. Cast the
net. Waiting game starts.

I spent last night polishing up a couple of short stories and going through the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2010 looking for suitable markets for them. There were a number of matches, so now I’ll have to wait and see if they bite.

The time has come to stop messing about and begin pitching my stories and see if I can see them in print in a recognised magazine (no offence intended to e-zine and online-only publishers). It will give my confidence and ego a boost, and will hopefully provide openings — or at least a foot on the ladder — for future efforts.

Some of you know I also write elsewhere on non-fiction issues, and I’m also aiming to get that work into print. So if things go well with one or the other, I hope to be able to brag share the details here when the time comes.

Until then, my life will consist of writing fiction and non-fiction material, finding and pitching markets, continuing to learn how to go about successfully writing novels, and of course the long waiting game between making a submission and hearing back on whether or not it has been accepted. It’s a strange choice of career…