Kevin's Watch

Xar wrote:Without going into the SRD connection, and meaning no disrespect to all the authors of the anthology, I think that being read by others than just the members of the forum would actually be nice. Here in the forum, we all know the authors, and however much we try, our judgment of their writings is necessarily biased. If a story is awful, we find it hard to say it clearly, because we know the author; we can say it is not particularly good, use euphemisms, but I don't think anybody of us would go to any given author and tell him "your story was repelling and here's why.". Similarly, we may choose which stories we like the most based not only on how they are written or what they tell us, but also who wrote them. It's a natural instinct, after all; you'll pay more attention to the stories of those you know the most.
But with outsiders, things are different: if they like or dislike the stories, it's because of the stories themselves, not because they have a grudge against you or they like you a lot. I have had, in one form or another, let several people read stories of mine; usually relatives and friends. But I look towards the next anthology, in which hopefully I might have a story too, also as a test of my writing skills, to see if others who don't know me like my stories too. And I'm not talking about KW members: I hope by now most of you know me a bit, after all. But if total strangers read my story and said "it's unbelievably cool", or even just "it's nice", it would reassure me; if he said "it's disgusting", well, I'd get depressed, but I like to think I'd try to improve then.

I don't know if I made my point - it's late and I'm sleepy Anyway, hope that makes it clear

dANdeLION wrote:Without an ISBN listing, I doubt it.