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M. R. Mathias · 09-20-2010, 07:09 AM

@ the last posters 'Worldwalker' & 'MrPLD' I explained earlier, and I assume that the explination got lost in the muck of my earlier posts in this thread.... The story 'The Blood of Coldfrost' was an expirenental project. I wrote it in an hour and posted it on Kindleboards. There, three other authors, some who frequent this site too, all took a crack at editing/rewriting it. This took about 4 more hours. I took the best recomendations from those writers, incorporated them, then made a cover and uploaded it all in less that a day.

To go back and violate the spirit of the expirement would be uncooth, I think. From conception to published in 12 hours or less was the idea. And it was done.

I just went back over it though and I still don't see any glaring errors that would scare a buyer away. In fact I don't see any at all. 'Purple prose' maybe, but that is sort of what 'Flash Fiction' is supposed to be.

I dont understand where any of you are coming from? It's my own work and I know I see it differently, but still, the horrid, English language bashing, document that the earlier posters portrayed simply does not exist. My sales prove otherwise. The Sword and the Dragon has hovered around the 10k best in sales mark at Amazon since it was published. That is no best seller, but top 10k out of 680k total books is something. As are my profits.

09-20-2010, 07:09 AM	#56
M. R. Mathias Banned Posts: 111 Karma: 80 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: New Orleans Device: Kindle k3, PC	@ the last posters 'Worldwalker' & 'MrPLD' I explained earlier, and I assume that the explination got lost in the muck of my earlier posts in this thread.... The story 'The Blood of Coldfrost' was an expirenental project. I wrote it in an hour and posted it on Kindleboards. There, three other authors, some who frequent this site too, all took a crack at editing/rewriting it. This took about 4 more hours. I took the best recomendations from those writers, incorporated them, then made a cover and uploaded it all in less that a day. To go back and violate the spirit of the expirement would be uncooth, I think. From conception to published in 12 hours or less was the idea. And it was done. I just went back over it though and I still don't see any glaring errors that would scare a buyer away. In fact I don't see any at all. 'Purple prose' maybe, but that is sort of what 'Flash Fiction' is supposed to be. I dont understand where any of you are coming from? It's my own work and I know I see it differently, but still, the horrid, English language bashing, document that the earlier posters portrayed simply does not exist. My sales prove otherwise. The Sword and the Dragon has hovered around the 10k best in sales mark at Amazon since it was published. That is no best seller, but top 10k out of 680k total books is something. As are my profits.