Submission #4
I sent an offering to the Surreal Botany Field Guide. Admittedly, I should have taken more time to revise the submission, but I decided to send it out right away. I may have signed my death warrant with that one.
I sent an offering to the Surreal Botany Field Guide. Admittedly, I should have taken more time to revise the submission, but I decided to send it out right away. I may have signed my death warrant with that one.
Taking only a few hours to mourn my latest batch of rejections letters, I resubmitted, “Enduring at the Edge of the Storm,” to Ideomancer, and sent “Drugged: A Character Study in Six Parts,” to City Slab. This will be the first submission for “Drugged” and the third for “Enduring.” This is also the third submission
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30 day rejection from Fantasy Magazine for my short, “Enduring at the Edge of the Storm.”
8 day rejection from Ideomancer. I found this rejection in my spam folder tonight, which makes me worry: how many responses have I lost? Very short comment on this one. They liked what I did with it, but was still passing on it. Oh well. ——————————————– I polished up a short and is ready for
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I recently wrote on my decision to add content to a flash story that had been rejected, entitled, “Drugged.” It happened that the suggestion (from an editor) to add to this story coincided with the need for me to write a short story for a graduate class on contemporary literature. Killing to birds with one
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I am very excited to announce that construction of a new website is officially underway. My brother, (who works with graphics, video, and music), is working hard on the site. He showed me the “enter” page he created, along with the main page and extra graphics–it looks amazing. He also let me hear some ambient
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Received a 2 month rejection from Shadowed Realms for my story “Breaking Out.” Suggested trying it at a cross-genre market. In other news I am working on a new story, which is actually an extension to the short called “Drugged.” I decided to add some more to it as one rejection suggested. Not much else
No, this isn’t my first rejection, but I wanted to start numbering them to keep track–no better post to start with than this one. Okay, “Drugged” was rejected by Ideomancer. She had some nice things to say, but ultimately she felt the story was too short: “This is more a scene in a much longer
I’ve written on this subject before. It concerns the writer’s meaning in a work, and an editor’s inability to see past the obvious. Yes, I am speaking of literature, and the hidden messages within work. I have a very short (flash fiction) piece that I wrote for a graduate class. I decided to send it
Just added this link on the sidebar. You may notice that I am too lazy to go around alphabetizing my links–so the newest ones are at the bottom, older ones at the top. I know… SO, I will place the link here too. The site is All Kinds of Writing. Good Stuff. All Kinds of