One of the major problems is that we read web pages in a different way than prose.  Newpapers/books all different.  But here we are presented with BOTH! This causes Writers to present shorter and shorter pieces of intense action (fast prose). It is no coincidence, IMHO, that Flash fiction has grown quite popular. I put up a single page, with a single incident--and found great success?!.

 The first site is called ABC Tales (http://www.abctales.com). I was told about this site by a student in the writer's Guild when at Aberdeen University. Below is a screen shot of the home page.  

 

 You can be Cherrypicked.  The guy who picked my works (both my originalsubmissions were selected) is the Chief Executive of ABC Tales who is a professional and has worked in presenting on BBC Sports radio programmes (Tony Cook). He chose my short story about a boxer, Joey. Being a boxing commentator I found his words very encouraging.

The next shot shows the Cherry-picked tales (my username is campbelt, I have 4 pieces of Prose in the page below).

 

 

This is the forum where most of the feedback is given. You can see evidence of my participation.

 

 

Now we come to the good old BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting.

I leave it to you to make sense of their methods. They do not appear to work very well--but if you get selected for an anthology, it is good for your CV. In these pages I am story-idol! In fact the submission below had a publisher contacting me requesting I write a short story sci-fi for his magazine.

 

 

 Last, but certainly not least, we come to the biggest site in the world UK Authors (http://www.ukauthors.com). This site actually produces published writers. If you get chosen for an anthology you work is published and can be bought in W.H . Smiths and Waterstones. This is a highly competative site. the constructive criticism is of a high quality (akin to mp3.com in the 1999-2002 era--does to the written word what mp3.com did to the sang one).

My short story Joey, was selected as a Great Read (equivalent to a Cherry-pick on ABC Tales) and was also nominated for the next anthology) this is reasonably difficult to achieve (apparently).

Below is the home page:  

 

Also has random tale button hidden away on site--ABC Tales has an obvious random article feature. I am member campbelt on this system (my university handle). note the Great Read sticker. The reads below says 16--not a lot, but most of those reading are writers. That work has now reached 295. Which is quite good because it is a children's story.

 

 

You can be voted for (the guy who voted here ‘Michel’ is an editor for the children’s section I believe).

 

When nominated for the AUK anthologies book, which is a published work, you can be paid on the number of copies sold and the length of your work.  Note my first short story (Joey) has been nominated (which is rare as published authors have works on this site and have not been nominated).

Some genres

 

 

 

 

 My home page (see the similarity with my project)

 

Queuing and list of current works

 

Here I am ranked Number 1 and 2  for th week 11/01/2005