How Do You Sell A Short Story?
Most new writers start with the short story. It’s a lot easier to write 10 or 15 pages than it is to write an entire novel. Short stories are a good way to practice the craft. It’s also easier to get stories published. There are hundreds upon hundreds of venues that publish short stories–you just have to know where to start. Write and rewrite your story until it’s as good as you can get it. Raymond Carver went through 40 or more revisions on a story. No reason you shouldn’t as well. Bad spelling or grammatical mistakes are a sure sign of an amateur story. Determine if you’d like to be published in print or online. Some print literary magazine will have an online counterpart, but you need to make clear that you only want to be part of the print wing, or vice versa. Read a few stories of the magazines where you’ll be submitting. If you’re story is entirely inappropriate, don’t waste the postage, or even an email. For instance, a science fiction story might not even be read by a non-genr
