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Originally Posted by Graham
Arjaybe's offer of a short story or two is a nice gesture, and my initial reaction was that the project could cope with both the efforts of the self-editing 'collective' and the other authors on MobileRead who were more comfortable simply donating stories. After all, MobileRead readers wouldn't necessarily know the background behind the project.
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Yes, but if that happens, I could end up with 20 stories within a week, leaving me to just build an ebook and put it online. I don't want to just receive a bunch of stories and then being the "
YOU do the work to get
MY stuff out there"-guy.
That is not the primary purpose of this project.
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Broadening the project to include any story opens the door to the anthology simply being used for self-promotion.
It could also put us in an awkward situation of having to make editorial decisions on whether a particular submission should be included.
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Yes. Self-promotion is obviously a side effect of this anthology after it gets out there, but it's not its primary purpose.
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So, on balance, I think you're right, Katsunami, that this should be restricted to contributors who are comfortable about the collective reviewing and analysis of the stories.
The alternative would be to do something like set a minimum post count for someone to have their story included if they didn't want to be fully involved.
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Nah... In, or out. Like Mr. Miyagi said:
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Miyagi: Now, ready?
Daniel: Yeah, I guess so.
Miyagi: [sighs] Daniel-san, must talk.
[they both kneel]
Miyagi: Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later
[makes squish gesture]
Miyagi: get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no." You karate do "guess so,"
[makes squish gesture]
Miyagi: just like grape. Understand?
Daniel: Yeah, I understand.
Miyagi: Now, ready?
Daniel: Yeah, I'm ready.
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In other words, either submit a story and participate, or don't submit. Just dropping a story into the thread to gather enough for an anthology is not the intention of the project.
It's OK to submit a story that was started some time ago and needs rework. Even my own would be in this category, probably, because some scenes are already written out.