Minor Successes, Minor Failures
Posted on November 12, 2009
Filed Under Writing Process |
Nothing would suit me more than another sale right now. I had high hopes for Ollie’s Dream for a major SF mag, but alas. Form rejection. I’ll have to submit it to a lesser market.
One story I submitted had an extremely rude rejection. The editor called all of my characters stupid. This story had been critted in a few places. Stupid? that one sort of hurt.
I lied about the minor successes, they will come. I have won a few internal contests at Liberty Hall and some good reviews in other places. Nothing beats a sale.
Panix is steeping. My brother read the novel and I took down three pages of notes. Many of his points will affect the next rewrite. I have to modify the stakes so Panix isn’t so darn competent. But with NaNo going on, I’m not thinking about Panix’s world.
I’m still trying to get a few short stories written. I always write a flash a week for the Liberty Hall flash contest and work on the next quarter’s Writers of the Future story. But five submissions out at a time is way too few. Perhaps I’ll use December to build up a decent submission pile.
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