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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