Comments on: Slush, etc. http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/2010/07/20/slush-etc/ Tobias Carroll writes fiction and reviews books and music. Welcome. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tobias http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/2010/07/20/slush-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-288279 Tobias Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:41:34 +0000 http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/?p=2551#comment-288279 Jurgen -- That makes sense. As someone who's used Fictionaut, I'm not entirely sure whether I should consider it a place to put stories that don't necessarily fit elsewhere (and thus theoretically create a space where they might work), or as a way to submit them for consideration without...submitting them for consideration per se. (Some of this confusion may come from the fact that the first few stories I'd seen on there were excerpts from existing work -- Christian TeBordo's, for instance.) I also wasn't sure, from the model that Hanas proposes, whether editors would look for work that's already been posted on writers' websites, or would solicit work from writers based on that. Which is, admittedly, neither here nor there... Jurgen — That makes sense. As someone who’s used Fictionaut, I’m not entirely sure whether I should consider it a place to put stories that don’t necessarily fit elsewhere (and thus theoretically create a space where they might work), or as a way to submit them for consideration without…submitting them for consideration per se. (Some of this confusion may come from the fact that the first few stories I’d seen on there were excerpts from existing work — Christian TeBordo’s, for instance.)

I also wasn’t sure, from the model that Hanas proposes, whether editors would look for work that’s already been posted on writers’ websites, or would solicit work from writers based on that. Which is, admittedly, neither here nor there…

]]> By: Jurgen http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/2010/07/20/slush-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-288277 Jurgen Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:19:45 +0000 http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/?p=2551#comment-288277 Hey Tobias -- as one of the co-founders of Fictionaut, I'd reverse one sentence: since we're enthusiastic about this argument, we provide the sort of system Hanas is talking about. I've experienced the frustrations of the slush pile from every angle, as reader, writer, and editor, and we built Fictionaut as a way to tackle some of those problems in a new way. Is this approach optimistic? Sure, you have to be in order to start something new. So far, it appears to be working. Hey Tobias — as one of the co-founders of Fictionaut, I’d reverse one sentence: since we’re enthusiastic about this argument, we provide the sort of system Hanas is talking about. I’ve experienced the frustrations of the slush pile from every angle, as reader, writer, and editor, and we built Fictionaut as a way to tackle some of those problems in a new way. Is this approach optimistic? Sure, you have to be in order to start something new. So far, it appears to be working.

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