By Alien Dimensions Issue 15
Alien Dimensions features stories by authors both new and experienced, exploring aliens and the future.
Issue 15 is the most recent edition, and I’m sure you’ll find the stories interesting.
This issue is a bit different in style to those issues that came before, in that I’ve also included some excerpts from previous authors’ novels, as well as some shorter length stories.
It’s also now available from more providers –
Issue 16 will be back to normal with longer stories, reduced promotional pages, and no excerpts, at this stage.
If you’ve loved Alien Dimensions so far, and wish to submit a story for the next issue, please read my guidelines here: Alien Dimensions Submission Guidelines. They’re quite restrictive! I’d rather you knew ahead of time what I’m looking for, rather than having to send out hundreds of rejection notices every day.
Having gone through most of the stories again that I’ve rejected over the past couple of years, I’ve discovered that there seems to be some kind of correlation between inventiveness and substance, and whether it has been written in the third person or not. As it has turned out, many of the stories I had to reject had been written in the first person.
First Person Storytelling
Why do you think that could be?
Is it because a first person story ends up being a stream of consciousness story where barely anything ends up happening?
Is it because there are so many published writers writing second-rate first person stories, and new writers attempt to emulate them, thinking this is how to write?
Or is it because first person story writing means the story gets bogged down in emotions and angst and reminiscences and circumspection, and everything else is described through how that one character perceives the world?
I’m not completely against first person storytelling, but I’d much prefer multiple characters and lots of head jumping, rather than a single first person view from beginning to end.
So, sadly, I’ve had to add ‘Written in the third person’ to the list of requirements. I realize this will probably reduce the amount of submissions to just one a month, but I think it will be for the best.
What do you think?