Sub #37 to Realms of Fantasy (my 2nd submission there)
This is my 19th submission for 2007, which means I’ve sent out more subs so far this year than I sent out all of last year, and it’s only May :)
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I’m a thousand words into a new WIP — a fantasy story this time, since my brain wanted a break after doing the 6k SFnal one. I think the story’s nearly done, actually, so when it’s finished I might try to trim it down into a flash-length story.
Sub#36 – to F&SF
This gets me up to six stories out in circulation (still one short of my all-time high of seven, but up from a while ago when I was down to four).
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Productivity seems to come in bursts for me. After finishing up a longish SF story yesterday, I wrote a slightly-longer-than-flash (1.5k) dark fantasy story today, more or less in one sitting.
Last weekend I went to Peter Beagle’s one-day writing workshop at Hugo House. We did some writing exercises geared toward creating a distinctive voice: writing a monologue in a non-human voice, writing a dialog between two characters where it was clear who was speaking even without any tags. The exercises (at least for me) were as much about thinking from a different POV as they were about dialog per se. I wanted to generate dialog that was unique to the character on more than just the surface level of vocabulary and speech patterns.
tinaconnolly came to the Peter …
Outlines, character development, and other miscellaneous notes for the novel are finally coming together. Things are looking good to start writing at the beginning of May. I’ve also made another attempt at breaking off a chunk of the story to do as a short story (or it may end up being more of a novelette). Anyway, the bit I’m thinking about breaking off comes right near the start of the novel, so even if it doesn’t work on it’s own, I can convert it into chapters or something after the fact. Hopefully I’ll be able to write the story/novelette version …
I’ve decided that the time has come for me to have a website. So I made one:
http://www.carolineyoachim.com
Comments are welcome and appreciated. Particularly comments about things that look funny or don’t work properly.
Sub #33 – I spent all day today working on revisions, which resulted in a sub to SH (my 4th sub there).
They’ve stopped working on the roof of my apartment, and have moved on to the walls (I think they’re installing new siding. Or throwing elephants at the walls.) I will be very happy when the all day banging noises stop.
Rejection #26 – A personalized and fairly positive 52-day rejection from Strange Horizons.
I’m now down to a mere 4 submissions out and circulating, so this weekend I’ll sit down and see where things need to shuffle off to next…
My week 5 Clarion story, “Time to Say Goodnight” was accepted at Fantasy Magazine! The announcement of the acceptance is at: http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/116497.html
Yay!!!
Writing flash stories makes me feel very productive. When I’m writing longer stories, I can almost never finish a story in a day. Today though, I wrote a flash story. Only 700 words, which isn’t a lot, but I still *feel* productive because it’s a finished story.
WnIP = Work NOT in Progress
I had the best of intentions for trimming off a small corner of my novel-ish idea and writing it up as a short story, but the ideas kept squirming away from me. Over the past couple days I easily made the quota of 1500 words, but not in story text — I wrote several pages of additional notes. I’ll give myself a couple more weeks to lay out the ideas/characters/etc in notes and get some outlining done, and I’ll start in on novel writing probably around the beginning of May.
Rejection #24 – 6-day …
