I write every day. Sometimes I even blog.
As I mentioned last week, I’m working harder at catching the rejections and turning them into submissions. It’s like juggling with six balls in the air, though. Just in this last week, four stories came back and got sent out again. I feel half tempted to seek out markets that take a long time to […]
Read More Still jugglingI’ve been slacking on the hard work of gathering rejections lately. Those recent brushes with selling a story kind of threw me off my game. And it didn’t help that two of them had fallen into black holes, so I had to look up how to withdraw them. And write notes of withdrawal. And work […]
Read More How to get rejectedLast week, when I said I was going to put down my head and butt it against a story until it was done, I was feeling pretty frustrated. Every time I poked at it, the story would go in a new direction, getting weirder and weirder. On the good side, this was exactly what made […]
Read More Embrace the surpriseI’ve been poking at a story and working on something else and poking at the story and working on something else, and that something else has to give. This blog. It’s put up or shut time on the story. So you’re probably going to see some really terse posts and more flowers for a while.
Read More You may not see much hereYou may have noticed that I keep a little list on the side of the page of the stories that I’m inflicting on the world. They’re ordered by when I finished them and sent them out to gather rejections. Well, “The Undying Pen”, the first story in years that I actually managed to finish, has […]
Read More It ain’t final til it’s finalDespite my completely irrational fear that somehow I will jinx things if I tell you, I’m expecting my little evolutionary Just-So story, “The Tale of Titanosaur’s Tail”, to appear in the fall issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk.
Read More Actually, I do have something to sayIf you know (or are) a genre writer in the Boston area who’s interested in a writing class, I can recommend the Ultimate SF Workshop. Taught by Jeff A. Carver and Craig Shaw Gardner, the next series will meet weekly for 10 weeks in Arlington, MA, starting this October.
Read More An SF Workshop that has helped mePHLPLPLPLPLPLPLHFFFT!
Read More So how’s that deadline thingy working out for you?Just the other day, I was thinking I hadn’t had a story rejected lately. So of course, another one got kicked back into the “keep trying” pile. Dang.
Read More DangToday is the first deadline I set myself, so today I declare my evolutionary Just-So story done. Even though it’s a bit of foolishness written for my inner six-year-old, it’s been absurdly hard for me to let go of it. So be it. It’s as done as it’s going to get. Go find your own […]
Read More I guess that’s one down
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