Submission #67 – to Strange Horizons, my 7th submission there.
(Strange Horizons will be temporarily closed to submissions from November 1st to December 31st, so I was happy to get something submitted there before they went on break.)
After spending several days making extremely slow progress on revisions for one of my Clarion West stories, I changed gears today and worked on a story idea I had last night. It’s now early afternoon, and I’ve finished the story (it’s pretty short, about 2k, but it still feels good to have finished something). I even did a round of revisions, so the draft is pretty clean.
Also, recently:
Submission #66 – To Coyote Wild (my first sub there)
and
Rejection #59 – A 98-day, round 3 rejection from Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
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And now, back to …
Over the last week or so:
Sub#65 – a flash story to Nature Magazine’s Futures series (my first sub there)
Rej#57 – 109-day rejection from All Possible Worlds. And, from the magazine’s website, they will not be publishing any more issues, so the market is closed.
sub#64 – to Writers of the Future (my 8th sub there).
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My WIP is holding steady at 7000 words. I’m not stuck, I have a fair idea of what comes next. But for the past couple days, instead of writing the next chunk, I’ve gotten stuck writing and re-writing the beginning. Not the whole 7000 words, just the very beginning. Mostly the first paragraph. I think I’ll limit myself to an hour on the first paragraph this afternoon, and then force myself to work on some later portion of the story.
Two fresh submissions:
sub#63 – to Shimmer (my 3rd sub there)
sub#64 – to Lone Star Stories (my 7th sub there)
One fresh rejection:
rej#53 – a 7-day rejection from Baen’s Universe.
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I’ve been making slow but steady progress on my latest WIP. Averaging about 500 new words per day, plus tinkering with all the words from the previous days. So it’s at around 2,700 words at the moment, and probably around a third of the way finished. I’m hoping that now that the story is a bit more hammered out I’ll be able to pick …
Two rejections today:
My 50th rejection! A 74-day rejection from Writers of the Future, for the quarter ending June 30th. This was my seventh submission to the contest.
R#51 – A 1-day friendly reject from Lone Star Stories. Gotta love the quick turnaround.
Two submissions today:
Sub#60 – to Baen’s Universe (my second sub there)
Sub#61 – to F&SF (my 11th sub there)
And, last but not least, 500 words on my new story.
After a month-and-a-half break from sending out submissions:
Sub58 – to Lone Star Stories (my 6th sub there)
Sub59 – to Analog (my 2nd sub there)
This gets me back up to 8 stories in circulation. I’ve also outlined all but the last scene for a brand new story, which I’m feeling pretty good about, and am hoping to have written by the end of the week. It’s nice to get back to writing after the six week moving/traveling break.
This week:
Submission #57 (to Strange Horizons, my 6th there)
Rejection #47 – 44 days, from Heliotrope. I’m a bit more disappointed about this one than usual, since the story was under consideration for a long-ish time for the market, and I had my hopes up. Oh well.
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The end of chapter six is in sight, hopefully I can crank it out this morning, and then spend the bulk of the day finishing off the surprisingly large amount of packing that still remains. This week has been a rough one, WaT-wise, with all the pre-move …
Today:
1500 words
4 boxes packed
1 submission sent
and an email rejection from The Town Drunk.
So today we finally got started on packing. The problem with packing is not so much the actual packing of items into boxes (I like that part, it’s a bit like 3d tetris) but the sorting. Do we really want to move this book/stack of papers/thingamajiggit, or can we recycle/donate/etc it? Does this need to come with us on our drive, or does it go into boxes for the moving pods? *sigh* I do feel better that we’ve at least …
Sub# 55 – I revised the flash story I wrote earlier this week and subbed it to Noctem Aeternus. This is my first sub there, and it’s a newish market. If you’re into horror, go check it out (http://www.michaelknost.com/). They haven’t started putting out issues yet, but they will have quarterly PDF issues starting next January, and subscriptions are FREE.
