Short-Story Website Gives Publishing Houses Rejection Slip

A new site, www.storywar.com, allows writers from all over the world to submit stories into an online league table. The stories are then read, rated and reviewed by visitors to the increasingly popular site.

Bangor, UK (PRWEB) April 8, 2007 -- It's finally finished: the masterpiece.

It's only a short story, but it means the world. What now? It's mailed to a fiction magazine. Then the wait. After nine weeks, a reply. The letter starts with: "Sorry..." Yet another rejection slip.

This has been the way things have been for writers since the dawn of time. Until now.

A new site, www.storywar.com, allows writers from all over the world to submit stories into an online league table. The stories are then read, rated and reviewed by visitors to the increasingly popular site.

The stories move up or down the popularity chart, depending on score, allowing writers to gauge their story's potential as well as receive critiques from other writers. The website allows writers to get their short stories seen instantly, removing the exasperating wait for a publisher's reply and making the rejection slip a thing of the past.

StoryWar.com is an ambitious project to say the least, say its creators. Many other websites have tried to embrace peoples' passion for writing and reading short stories, but never has a site been developed that allows writers to submit a story instantly into a league table.

For the first-time ever, the aspiring storyteller can now write a story in the knowledge that it will be read and rated the moment it is submitted. Never again need the writer's fate be in the hands of Editors.

Developed by a writer for writers, the site seems to have its priorities in order. There are no ads to be found anywhere, no links whatsoever, and membership is totally free. The sole purpose of the site is to let writers write, and to let the rest of us enjoy the stories.

The site has been in development since 2006, but has been online for less than a week. Already over 50 stories have been submitted, and close to a hundred writers have registered for their free account. Close to a thousand people have joined as 'friends' at storywar's myspace profile (www.myspace.com/storywar) and the site is getting rave reviews from both published and new authors.

Only one question remains to be answered... which story to tell?

www.storywar.com

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