Editing Short Stories (Guide)/Table Publish Short Story

Go back, if your story is [[Not quite ready yet...]] or finish it off if you have at least 10 pages with 16 [[Potential]]. <u>Publishing is a ''Potential'' challenge</u>, consumes all created pages and might add some [[:Category:Making Waves|Making Waves]]. Failing degrades your story two tiers. Echoes sale price is in brackets - although not higher math, for your convenience the last column shows the value loss on a failure.

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|+[[The Writer's Desk: finish a Short Story]]
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! Challenge<br />information!! Rework<br />up to !! Potentially !!  Success ({{e}}) !! {{IL|Making Waves|Appearance=MW}} !! Failure ({{e}}) !! {{IL|Making Waves|Appearance=MW}} !! {{e}} Diff.
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| 16 ||{{IL|Manuscript Page| 62|Appearance=}}
| [[Potentially acceptable|acceptable]]
|[[File:Story.png|30px|link=Short Story]] (2) || 1
|[[File:Storyunloved.png|30px|link=Unloved Short Story]] (1)|| 0 ||1
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| 32 ||{{IL|Manuscript Page| 62|Appearance=}}
| [[Potentially competent|competent]]
|[[File:Storycompetent.png|30px|link=Competent Short Story]] (10) || 5
|[[File:Storyunloved.png|30px|link=Unloved Short Story]] (1)|| 1 || 9
|-
| 50 ||{{IL|Manuscript Page|Appearance=}}{{IL|Romantic Notion|Appearance=}}{{IL|Scrap of Incendiary Gossip|Appearance=}}{{IL|Compilation of Case-Notes| 62|Appearance=}}<br />{{IL|Tale of Terror!!|Appearance=}}{{IL|Compromising Document| 72|Appearance=}}
| [[Potentially compelling|compelling]]
|[[File:Storycompelling.png|30px|link=Compelling Short Story]] (30)|| 10
|[[File:Storycompetent.png|30px|link=Competent Short Story]] (10)|| 5 || 20
|-
| 70 ||{{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|81|Appearance=}}<br />5x{{IL|Hard-Earned Lesson| 83|Appearance=}}
| [[Potentially thrilling|thrilling]]
|[[File:Storythrilling.png|30px|link=Thrilling Short Story]] (50) || 20
|[[File:Storycompetent.png|30px|link=Competent Short Story]] (10)|| 5 || 40
|-
| 80 ||{{IL|Zee-Ztory| 92|Appearance=}}
| [[Potentially exceptional|exceptional]]
|[[File:Storyexceptional.png|30px|link=Exceptional Short Story]] (60) || 25
|[[File:Storycompelling.png|30px|link=Compelling Short Story]] (30)|| 10 || 30
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| 90 ||{{IL|Extraordinary Implication| 105|Appearance=}}
| [[Potentially extraordinary|extraordinary]]
|[[File:Storyextraordinary.png|30px|link=Extraordinary Short Story]](70) || 30
|[[File:Storythrilling.png|30px|link=Thrilling Short Story]] (50)|| 20 || 20
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| 100 || {{IL|Touching Love Story|Appearance=}}{{IL|An Identity Uncovered!| 115|Appearance=}}<br />{{IL|Favour in High Places| 152|Appearance=}} {{IL|Blackmail Material| 162|Appearance=}}
| [[Potentially masterful|masterful]]
|[[File:Storymasterful.png|30px|link=Masterful Short Story]] (80) || 35
|[[File:Storyexceptional.png|30px|link=Exceptional Short Story]] (60)|| 25 || 20
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| 150 || {{IL|Trade Secret|Appearance=}}
| [[Potentially celebrated|celebrated]]
|[[File:Storycelebrated.png|30px|link=Celebrated Short Story]] (130) || 40
| [[File:Storyextraordinary.png|30px|link=Extraordinary Short Story]] (70)|| 30 || 60
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| 200 ||
| [[Potentially classic|classic]]
|[[File:Storyclassic.png|30px|link=Classic Short Story]] (180) || 100
| [[File:Storymasterful.png|30px|link=Masterful Short Story]] (80)|| 35 || 100
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'''Final notes:'''
* Once you’ve completed your [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Story]], you’re ready to start again and write another!
* ''A Compelling Short Story'' has a real bad ratio on action points for what it's worth in the end, if you don't push your ''Potential'' with some ''Laudanum''.
* A failure on ''A Thrilling Short Story'' is a real pain, so it seems advisable to rather aim for ''An Exceptional Short Story''.
* The optimal way to earn the most echoes and [[Making Waves]] per action with modified [[Persuasive]] 183+ is to grind [[Touching Love Story|Touching Love Stories]] in [[Polythremic Promenade (Guide)|Polythreme]], use [[Laudanum!]] and scrap it if it fails, then use either [[Write frantically]] or [[Write frenziedly]] if you have high enough Persuasive, then use your love stories to increase [[Potential]] to 110. Not counting the zee trips since the impact of those approaches zero as the amount of time spent overzee increases, this gives 1.73 echoes and 0.746 [[Making Waves]] per action.
* ''A Celebrated Short Story'' is already expensive, risky and hard to achieve, but, if there's no serious need, to aim for a ''classic'' is quite insane - it requires a minimum of 2 ''Trade Secrets'', which take 8 weeks to gather and sell for 120 echoes directly or can be converted to 250 echoes of items, whereas the ''Short Story'' goes away for 180. Of course, some Londoners [[Sacrifice a work of genius|are insane.]]
* [[Advance from Journalist to Author]]
** This  needs an {{IL|Exceptional Short Story}} to advance from tier 1 to tier 2.
** And as the card claims: "''Being an Author […] pays better than Journalism''" - to be clear, this only refers to the fact that tier 2 professions pay better weekly than their tier 1 variants and this does NOT mean that ''Short Story'' authoring or anything else is more profitable when you are an Author.
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