ElectricBlue
Joined 11 Years Ago
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Not all newbies read the How To's or the stickies, judging by the regular turn of threads on the repeat repeat issues. It's been that way for the last decade, despite there being FAQs covering most of the questions they're asking. Your approach is admirable, but I don't think it will make much difference.Part of what got me thinking about this was the How To for new authors I am working on. What do people think about this excerpt for new authors. This is in the section of having your story sent back.
Thoughts on this?
All you can really do is what I've done over the years, and patiently answer the same questions over and over again - and avoid the tendency to reduce the newbie question threads to the same old same old unhelpful non-information, or intolerance of their questions. We were all newbies once, trying to figure out the answers. People seem to forget that, and for me, that's what gets tedious, not the fact that the questions are being asked, again.