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Have you ever asked yourself – is it good enough?

October 10, 2011 by Tahlia Newland

At various points in their careers every artist, and probably everyone with an assignment or presentation to hand in, will ask themselves this question and it’s just hit me (again) because I have a story all ready to roll out to the world. I’ve had it professionally edited and I’ve formatted it beautifully using HTML, ( a fun learning curve) so it looks better than a lot of ebooks I’ve read, and now I’m asking myself, is it good enough? This is the quandary of any author whose work hasn’t been picked up by a publisher. In this case, because we’re talking about one short story, I haven’t even submitted it, because no one publishes one short story. An anthology of short stories is coming next and I’m not submitting that to anyone either because no one publishes anthologies of short stories by new authors. So, how do you know if your work is good enough? Answer - show it to people who will know. Seven people have looked at the anthology and every one of them has enjoyed them and agreed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book talk Tagged With: author career plan, evaluating writing, getting published, publishing plan, self-confidence, Short stories

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