Subj : English skills
To   : Arelor
From : Spectre
Date : Thu Oct 20 2022 09:51:00

 Ar> See, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine accepts, teoretically, flash
 Ar> fiction pieces, but I have never seen them publish flash fiction.

Sorry no idea what that might be.  I always thought Flash was the saviour of
the universe.

 Ar> selected 2, yours is gonna end up in /dev/null. There is not such
 Ar> a thing as saving a good story this month for future use in this
 Ar> industry.

I'm not going to say they keep a supply, but I'd be surprised if they had
nothing as a fallback position. Maybe the one that missed out last month,
shrug.  Just something to plug a hole in case of nothing suitable being
available.

 Ar> My point is that the odds are so low that the mathematical profit
 Ar> expectancy of a given story is abyssmal, so it is just natural
 Ar> for quality to degrade. This dawned on me once I found an author,

As previously though, this has always been the case. Its the nature of the
effort there is no guarantee of success.  In the publishing game there have
always been more contenders than there are spaces at the printing press. Also
reinforces that it is not a viable job unless you get lucky.

Spec


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