For those who were published, and compensated for it.

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Who did you allow to read your first manuscripts? Professional editors? Or family and friends? Internet Writer's Circles? Who gave you the best advice? Who inspired you the most?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Back in the day... nobody really

these days, critique circle is a good place

BIL from time to time

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2. What if you seriouisly want to get published.

How do you know that your work will be safe with CC?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. You don't, you can always send it to the copyright office

but there has to be some level of trust

Why I never have posted anything here that I don't intend to self publish, as here it is considered published, quirkiness of title seventeen

Hell, for the most part finished doing the fifth edit on the third Future Nexus novel... and I will probably post it at CC.

On the bright side, was going over novels today... most folks don't hurt their characters beyond physical

Antiwar novel... fully... the people who went to that hell were fully changed by it. Some to the point that they may prefer a bullet

That is unique... only one in the science fiction\fantasy is... Lord of the Rings... Frodo never recovered... neither did Sam...

Its author was a war vet...

Seems to me that does not sell that much... so will post and see about sending over to Baen very soon.

If they say no, will self publish in the line...

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4. True about the happy ending.

If it's a very sad ending, I don't usually watch the movie twice. I could handle Frodo, however, because he was completely changed by the end and became spiritual enough to move onto the next stage. Also, the writer was smart not to give him too much of a love interest, like Sam had.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Well Frodo is not your classic hero story

but in the US we like American stories, where the characters really don't change

Was doing some market research yesterday... and noticed that pattern in sci fi

Some major series, with life changing events, the characters remain the same, as these are serials.

Now if they failed to change in dramatic ways... that is one thing... but they simply didn't

I decided a while ago that I have a problem with that... and the character arc of some of these major characters took them through severe ringers... on purpose

But I also wonder if this is because the US, thankfully, has not seen a war in its territory since the Civil War (Yes the Indian wars were technically in the US... territories) and we have not seen these horrors personally

We saw a small uptick of not glorifying war after WW II... and some of the stories that came out Hollywood in the 1970s, were quite antiwar, but the few they've tried recently... no cigar

I wonder if we have a major crisis if the scales will fall off people's eyes?

Now to having others review your stuff... new writers are usually afraid of places like CC... have never had a problem... nor have I ever heard a problem there.

My two cents