The computer crashed -- I am posting this via a wifi connection borrowed via my old laptop. I just got my comp copies of Calliope with my non-fiction column for Mensa regarding genre writing in it: "The Beginning: Why most Stories Get Rejected"; aces! I also got my writer's copy of the latest issue of Golden Visions Magazine with the latest ( Read more... )

"Go look at your blog journal. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How fucked are you?"

Actually, since I have never posted any Fandom-related thing, I am alone.

I'd better start running now.

...for what it's worth. I have a story for my The Fifth Precinct crime/mystery series that I've been tinkering with in my head for the longest time, and started working on it a couple days ago. It was 3,876 words long and nowhere near being a complete work, just a work-in-progress, and I went to town on it and took it up to 6,425 ... not exactly ( Read more... )

Yes, it's not just "No play for Mr. Gray" anymore ( Read more... )

Golden Visions Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy sent me my author's contract to look over regarding the latest story in my The Keleyat on Mars story that they are buying, along with a PDF pre-pub review copy of the upcoming Summer issue so that I could vet the editorial work, et cetera. The only problem I found (of course!) was an error *I ( Read more... )

Twisted ankle, but I've been staying off it and it's getting better. Missed out on walking during the terrificly cool weather we've had this week, though ( Read more... )

Another rejection slip, this one from Australia. The reader's comments aren't bad, although when you are morosely staring at a rejection slip, even the nice comments somehow hurt.

Ah, well.

Having put my latest story to bed, I got a rejection slip on one of my other stories in the e-mail just now.

*Sigh*

Such is the game.

Current word count: 2914 words

I have been adding new words -- and cutting old ones -- from the story in an attempt to make things better. One of those things would be in making the tags better, sharper. And example would be the line

"But he ... he said I was..." She stopped, furious. "Why, that bastard!" It's okay, but I am essentially just ( Read more... )

Current word count: 2902 words ( Read more... )