400 Published For Pay Stories

[R. Richard]

I recently published my 400th for pay story. Some things I learned along the way:
All of my stories have a real plot, I don't know if that's an advantage.
My only way to promote my stories is to publish another one.
I have several publishers, with different focus on what they want.
I make some money from publishing, but not nearly enough.
I have lived in several places and I only use those places as locations for my stories, for realism.
I have had some contact with adult movie ladies and I use those contacts as realism when I write about the porn industry.
I do write scifi, but hold to the one big lie theory. (It's not possible to fly a spaceship from planet to planet, the distances and times are too long, colony ships excepted.)

 

[lovecraft68]

Congrats, that's a big number and a lot of work over the years.

 

[Lovecraft_lore2]

I recently published my 400th for pay story. Some things I learned along the way:
All of my stories have a real plot, I don't know if that's an advantage.
My only way to promote my stories is to publish another one.
I have several publishers, with different focus on what they want.
I make some money from publishing, but not nearly enough.
I have lived in several places and I only use those places as locations for my stories, for realism.
I have had some contact with adult movie ladies and I use those contacts as realism when I write about the porn industry.
I do write scifi, but hold to the one big lie theory. (It's not possible to fly a spaceship from planet to planet, the distances and times are too long, colony ships excepted.)

Congratulations. As I understand it, here is a permanent thread at the top of the authors hangout where you can post links to your pay stories. Thank you for posting tips of what has worked. It is insightful.

The one big lie theory. Unless the math has changed in the last few years-

From Earth to Jupiter is only around 6 days at 1g assuming you decelerate at the halfway point. It breaks the delta-v budget using current technology chemical rockets, but that is not to say it is impossible, just impossible with the current tech chemical rockets the human race is using. In fact, at 1g you would not even need to do things like bank off the moon's gravity well.

In theory, it might be possible to move from one solar system to another using some type of tesseract, the Einstein-Rosen bridges could allow it. The only thing that is outright not possible is moving FTL. Which is good, an object with the mass of a VW beetle hitting the Earth at something like 90% the speed of light would split the planet.