{"id":666,"date":"2010-08-07T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T13:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=666"},"modified":"2010-08-07T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T13:54:48","slug":"sold-my-first-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Sold my first short story!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I made my first fiction sale!  I sold my short fantasy story <em>Maker of the Twenty-first Moon<\/em> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailysciencefiction.com\/\">Daily Science Fiction<\/a>.  They are a new market, so they&#8217;re not quite well-established yet, but they pay pro-rates (currently they pay 8 cents a word; pro is 5 cents and up, so 8 cents is quite good), and, from the few author names they are currently listing on their site, it looks like my story will be in good company!  So I&#8217;m obviously pretty excited!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately it will probably be a good long while until I ever write (or sell) more, as just about all my energy is currently focused on studying animation.  But whenever I do write some more, I think this sale will affect me in two ways:<\/p>\n<p>1) I&#8217;ll have more self-confidence.  I&#8217;ll say to myself: &#8220;You sold a story before, you have it in you to do it again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2) I&#8217;ll have less self-confidence.  I&#8217;ll say to myself: &#8220;Is this work good enough?  Is it as good, if not better, than that story you already sold?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe those two effects will cancel each other out.  And it probably shouldn&#8217;t affect me that much anyway, since in the grand scheme of the world, this sale isn&#8217;t of particularly significant historic importance.  But I suppose one&#8217;s first ever sale will naturally go to the head just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I made my first fiction sale! I sold my short fantasy story Maker of the Twenty-first Moon to Daily Science Fiction. They are a new market, so they&#8217;re not quite well-established yet, but they pay pro-rates (currently they pay 8 cents a word; pro is 5 cents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[258,192],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-aK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}