[BeccaPrice]

So I've been hanging out at another forum for writers, and getting some good help and advice, but I'm noticing a trend that rather distresses me. All the writing advice I've seen says to let a novel sit for a week or more - better, a month - and then going over it again. And the advice seems to stress getting good beta readers, if not a full-blown editor, to help catch continuity errors and other such problems.

but what I'm noticing at the other forum is that there seems to be strong emphasis on turning out as many books as you can, as fast as you can. Many of these people, it seems, are publishing first drafts (and citing Dean Wesley Smith's example of writing a book in a very short time, and just sending it off - and blogging all the while he was doing so.)

I write short bedtime stories for children, and I spend a lot of time polishing each one until it feels like a little gem.

Maybe, if I wanted to make a living at this, I should be churning out erotica at $2.99 for a novella/short story - erotica fans seem to be more tolerant of higher prices for shorter works, it seems. (not that I have anything against good quality erotica, but it's not my thing)

I dunno. Hanging out there is getting depressing.