For those of you who have Livejournal accounts, I set up a syndicated feed that you can view on lj. One word of caution - if you add it, the first thing it'll do is put a whole bunch of posts into your friends view. So you might want to add it last thing at night, rather than early in the morning. That way you won't spend your day staring at fifteen old blogger posts by yours truly. Even I wouldn't want that.
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I have about 500 words on the novella, but they're "fluid" words - that is to say, I keep adding and subtracting, moving sentences around. The Princess Irulan was right: a beginning is indeed the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. I may end up skipping to scene two, and hope that at some point the right beginning will reveal itself to me. It's not often that I get the first sentence when I'm actually writing the first sentence. The only time that happened was when I wrote "The Four Hundred Thousand".
Speaking of stories - I now have all of three submissions out. Gah. Well, again, not bad for a non-story writer, and for someone who's had almost everything she's written accepted at some point or another. However, the submissions all very iffy: I don't think TFHT is going to make the cut at the magazine it's at (it's sf, but reads so much like dark fantasy/horror, that I think it might have been the wrong one of the "Big Three" to send it to); the cowboy story I can pretty much write off as too long and not cowboyish enough; and the third is a mildly erotic retelling of a myth (the horned god Cernnunos, but set in a suburban mall) that's been sitting at an anthology for about a year, with no expectation of an answer beyond "sometime in 2007" - that could be another 12 months, then. I also did a bit of research, and found that the editor in question has been planning this antho in some form or another since 2003. They're reputable, but there's only so much "it's a slow industry" I can take. I work in the industry, and I know just how fast it can be, when it wants. If I had any balls, I'd pull it and send it to Shimmer or Cabinet de Fees - both far better markets for the story, I've come to realize. I may just do that in January, when I get those New Year's balls grown in. :)
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I have about 500 words on the novella, but they're "fluid" words - that is to say, I keep adding and subtracting, moving sentences around. The Princess Irulan was right: a beginning is indeed the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. I may end up skipping to scene two, and hope that at some point the right beginning will reveal itself to me. It's not often that I get the first sentence when I'm actually writing the first sentence. The only time that happened was when I wrote "The Four Hundred Thousand".
Speaking of stories - I now have all of three submissions out. Gah. Well, again, not bad for a non-story writer, and for someone who's had almost everything she's written accepted at some point or another. However, the submissions all very iffy: I don't think TFHT is going to make the cut at the magazine it's at (it's sf, but reads so much like dark fantasy/horror, that I think it might have been the wrong one of the "Big Three" to send it to); the cowboy story I can pretty much write off as too long and not cowboyish enough; and the third is a mildly erotic retelling of a myth (the horned god Cernnunos, but set in a suburban mall) that's been sitting at an anthology for about a year, with no expectation of an answer beyond "sometime in 2007" - that could be another 12 months, then. I also did a bit of research, and found that the editor in question has been planning this antho in some form or another since 2003. They're reputable, but there's only so much "it's a slow industry" I can take. I work in the industry, and I know just how fast it can be, when it wants. If I had any balls, I'd pull it and send it to Shimmer or Cabinet de Fees - both far better markets for the story, I've come to realize. I may just do that in January, when I get those New Year's balls grown in. :)
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