by Kathy Fuller
First things first–everyone writes differently. Everyone creates differently. Everyone finds certain storytelling tools useful, others about as valuable as used toilet paper. Taking that into consideration, here is my experience with Amazon Storyteller and why I won’t be using it again.
I decided to take a short story I recently self-pubbed, make it into a script, and upload it to Amazon Studios. Yeah, I know a “successful” script is a lot longer than sixteen pages (just like I know .99 is a lot to charge for 9 pages of story), but this is an experiment and I’m trying to figure out how this all works, including self-publishing. Better to mangle a few pages than a whole novel/script. Plus this story had been e-pubbed way back in 2000 before Amazon took over the world, so I didn’t have a problem using it as my guinea pig.
Still, I privately submitted the script, describing it as a short film based on a short story. Amazon will look at the premise and evaluate it, then contact me if they’re interested. Since I’m 100% sure they won’t be, I’m not worried about it.