From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 30, 2014 1:32:52 PM UTC-4, Nicky wrote:   
   > I don't know why you would think your skills have necessarily plateaued or   
   declined. It is very difficult to get conventionally published these days and   
   not succeeding at that isn't always a comment on the quality of your writing,   
   though obviously it    
   can be. Anyway a new idea may have success where a previous failed just   
   because some ideas are more fashionable or commercial than others.   
      
   People I trust looked at a few, and found errors I did not see. Not the   
   occasionally homophone error, or misplaces punctuation, but huge clinkers that   
   should have been obvious. Committing the same errors over and over again   
   indicates an inability to    
   learn.   
      
   > > One editor did suggest, out of the blue, going self-publishing in a   
   certain genre, and maybe that's an option, but at this point it seems useless.   
   >   
   > It is a bit of a faff I think, which is largely what is putting me off. The   
   idea of reformatting my mss fills me with horror but OTOH  you may get some   
   readers you wouldn't get if it stayed in the drawer. As writers we want to be   
   read and these days    
   you can be.    
   >    
   > I am considering self pub for just that reason. The work I have hanging   
   around won't set the world on fire, but is perfectly OK and some people might   
   like it. I worked quite hard in writing it, why not send it out there?   
      
   This is an issue of genre. If SF and F are the ghettos of fiction, then   
   *Christian* SF and F are crates in a back alley. However, my first point   
   applies to these as well.   
      
   On formatting manuscripts: It's not that much of a problem if you use styles.   
   After than to change the look all you have to do is change the style   
   formatting.   
      
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