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Round and round they go…

Submission #38 – Sent one of my Clarion stories off to Interzone for their e-submission period (May). This is my first time subbing to Interzone.

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Rejection #30 – From Strange Horizons, with comments. I’ve gotten personalized rejections from SH the last few times through, which is encouraging.

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Question: How long does it take to strip the siding off an apartment building?
Answer: Longer than 2 weeks (and they still aren’t done).

The incessant pounding noise the construction guys make is not terribly conducive to me being productive. I’m one of those writers the …

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Submission #37

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.

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Submission #36

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.

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This That and the Next Thing

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 …

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Yay productivity!

Submission #27 – Flash fiction to Postcards from Hell.

I revised not one but *two* stories today. One was the flash story, which I submitted. The other was a substantially longer piece, that I needed to trim by several hundred words. The somewhat-shortened longer story is now awaiting crits with one of my crit groups. Cutting 700 words from a 5,700 word story was hard. I had to do it in three passes, with each pass resulting in fewer anti-words. I’m tentatively pleased with the result…we’ll see what my critters have to say about it.

Was good to have had …

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submission, rejection, headache

Sub #26 – a drabble, which is a story of exactly 100 words, something I’d never tried before.

So, for a brief period of time I was up to *six* items in circulation. Then,

Rejection #20.

*sigh* Need to think about how I want to shuffle things. In addition to what’s out there, I have a flash fiction piece that I’m going to touch up a bit and send out hopefully this weekend. Then I’d be up to seven. Drabble and Flash stories are a good way to get ones submission numbers up in a hurry!

Completely unrelated to all …

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Submission # 25 and random thoughts on revisions

Sub 25 – Did some light revisions to the story that came back from F&SF (mainly tweaking the opening), came up with a (hopefully) better title, and shipped it out to Writers of the Future. This is my sixth entry to WotF.

Holding steady at 5 stories out to market at the moment. I’ve got one more almost ready to go (a flash story), and a bunch of things that need revisin’. Some writers thrive on revisions. I am not one of those writers. Little revisions I can handle, no worries. Tweak this, adjust that. But when I have to …

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