Augh! It's a perfectly cromulant punctuation mark!

[valarltd]

Ellora's Cave does not take colons in their work.

But how the flaming Sea am I supposed to punctuate this sentence WITHOUT one?
“At the end, let only this be said: that all Ruvane Delkroy did, he did for love of Etarin.”

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[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I'm just bitching because the rules seem so arbitrary sometimes. And I worked to get into EC, because of the huge potential client base.

I can't live on $70/mo from my writing.


(At least we haven't had a demand for more cowbell.)

[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

I think what I can't ever forget is an editor from them telling you to sex up your story more. (Yes it sucks that it's my fav and I can't remember the title. But the Jewish lawyer and her miracle child)

I know that they're wanting sexy stories. But that made me feel like they don't care about flow and characterization, they just want print out the wank material.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

They said Etarin needs more sex too, about 4-5 more pages. Of course, beefing up the existing scenes will be fine.

What got me on "Burning for Eight Days" was the "Sex it up/ooops, it's all sex, give us plot" two-step.

But they took it, and I'm hoping for good money. (It's what I call whoring anyway, writing for the money and not for desperate need to tell the story)