asim-metry

[adelaidesean]

Received copies of ASIM 50--and it is a beauty! Contains my 8-word short story "The Rise, and Fall, of Neologopolis" and much, much more.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is that your best ever sale? I mean, cents per word.

Let's see - minimum $20., so $2.50 per word....

Can't wait to read it. Nope I can get through it in one sitting.


Steve Cameron

p.s. Now you only have to trim 25% from that story to equal Hemingway's six word story....

[(Anonymous)]

Hope! That should be hope, not nope.... What a dope!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

:-)

Probably not my best word-rate to date, but must be getting close.

A one-word story would be the ideal, but I suspect two words might be the absolute minimum. Something to ponder...

[punktortoise.livejournal.com]

I actually have a no-word nonfiction article, for which I've yet to find a taker:

"Things You Can Do To Defend Yourself Against The Earth Getting Swallowed By A Black Hole"

[(Anonymous)]

That's great. I love it.

lol


Steve Cameron

[(Anonymous)]

Sean,

Don 't want to bring the mood down, but I just read your story.

To be honest, I felt it dragged towards the middle. I wasn't sure whose POV it was, and I'm not convinced the character development was obvious enough.

Apart from that I liked it.

lol (Congrats, I *do* like it - just got to look up some of the bigger words now!)

Steve Cameron

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Steve! Only one of those words should be in the dictionary. :-)

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Does the word count include the title?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Good question. No, it doesn't.

[(Anonymous)]

I could get a story with only one word, but the title would have to be incredibly long....

Steve Cameron

[quuux.livejournal.com]

Or German.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I see you're coming to the Sydney Writers' Festival. You are Possibly the only genre writer allowed to attend.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Garth's there as well, which makes two.

But still...yikes. That's no good.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Oh, and there's Marcus Zusak and David Mitchell, too, so that's something.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Safety in numbers, eh?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's the plan!