Comments | sr_smith: Turkey City Lexicon - A Primer for SF Workshops

sr_smith

Turkey City Lexicon - A Primer for SF Workshops

Apr 08, 2010 15:55

Nothing profoundly new in this, but a good read nonetheless.

http://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer-for-sf-workshops/

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daddio914 April 8 2010, 22:05:07 UTC

You know... one of these days LJ is going to have a "like" button like FB does. ;)

As I read through the article, I found myself comparing the various tropes to a piece I'm working on... and then I got the brilliant idea to use them all. You know, kind of like that bet about the worst story either of the two authors could get published...

sr_smith April 9 2010, 04:40:43 UTC

My head hurts just thinking about that. I just read through a dozen 365 submissions and almost all violated at least one of these 'rules' in an unforgivable way. Sometimes I just want to include a link to this or something like that in the rejection letter - I'm just not sure people would take it the right way.