## ATTN Authors: VICE has just launched a short-form sci-fi platform and they're paying $0.20 a word for content.

* Author: u/None *
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* Score: 9

* Created: 2014-11-18T08:15:05

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### Comments:

> **u/None** [+3]  (an hour later)
> 
> Fuck, now I **have** to write that Roomba story.
> 
> In all seriousness, at first glance this seems pretty cool, but how do this stack up against other ways of making money with short fiction?

>> **u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer** [+3]  *Utopian Smut Peddler* (3 hours later)
>> 
>> Not great. Only 52 submissions accepted a year. Word length limit: 2000.
>> 
>> On the other hand, if you have an in with the editor (like the people who will actually be accepted will) that's a few hundred dollars for maybe a couple of days hard writing and editing...that you have almost zero chance of earning by emailing that address.
>> 
>> Hmm.
>> 
>> So really, more of a standard open-call (slim) chance to get published than a way to make real cash monies fast. 
>> 
>> >how do this stack up against other ways of making money with short fiction?
>> 
>> Just as impossible. But do it anyway. But don't quit your day job.

>> **u/embrodski** [+1]  (13 hours later)
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>> >how do this stack up against other ways of making money with short fiction?
>> 
>> That depends on how big Terraform gets. At 0.20 a word and opening with huge names like Doctorow and Sterling, things are looking good. If you get published by them (and they earn a strong reputation) than you have a very nice credit to put on any CV you send to a publisher when you try to get your novel published. It could, potentially, help. As a way to eventually make money by writing novels.
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>> No one makes livable money writing short fiction.
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>> (and actually, even income from novels is very rare, but at least that's in the realm of possibility)

> **u/qznc** [+1]  *Chaos Legion* (4 hours later)
> 
> Is there a way to get an RSS feed of "Terraform" without the rest of "Motherboard"? The whole feed is too much content for me.
> 
> edit: Got it http://motherboard.vice.com/rss?tag=terraform

> **u/alexanderwales** [+1]  *Time flies like an arrow* (15 hours later)
> 
> I'll have to think on this. Normally ideas are cheap and it's all in the execution, but I'm not sure that I have any ideas in my scrap pile that can fit into a story of 2,000 words or less. Maybe I'll dust off one of my old stories about a fiction-writing robot, but that might be a little too meta.

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