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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3206113" data-attributes="member: 35788">If I were in an offendable mood, this would likely offend my sensibilities.  I've not had many people drop by my story hour and comment about my story, but the few who have said that the story was/is an enjoyable read.  (Thank you to those who have.  You honestly don't know what a simple "Dang, this is a good read" can do for a person's day!)  Sure, it hasn't had professional editing, of course.  But just because I write and post doesn't mean it isn't good enough to be published after an editor has had their go at it.  I'm also not saying my stuff is publishable, either.  But I think there are people here at ENWorld who are publishable quality who write because they like to see people happy and don't need to make a buck on it.  I commend them.  To be honest, if I were to ever publish I would still write Story Hours.  To be completely honest, I would actually still write them so that people who bought my books felt like they were getting a two-for-one deal or something like it (Which means I would have to retain rights to my setting and not sell them off to the publisher, of course...).  I just like to write.  I like to make money, too ... but I like to write more.As to whether or not I'd pay, no.  And to be honest I wouldn't accept payment, either.  If I accepted payment I would probably immediately lose my desire to write because it would become a job, not a hobby.  I could probably sell a book if approached because fiction is most often bought up once a work is completed.  But the fun about a Story Hour is that I can say to myself ... "Huh, I've got an hour and a half to kill.  I can crank out 2,000 words and give it a rough edit in that time!  And then, poof, I've got an update that was fun to write.</blockquote>

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