We need a place to check in here too
I'm running by to mention that I'm still here, still working and still not quite on goal (oh well). I did manage to edit and submit two stories this week (ok, one officially submitted today, but I'm still counting it as yesterday) which means I have 3 stories out right now.
I haven't yet resubmitted the one Apex rejected. I think it needs the right market and I'm not sure what that is. Thinking about it. I also haven't submitted (still) the story I wrote in January (that put me behind and caused all the trouble). The problem is, I consider myself a fantasy writer and, as written, it isn't fantasy. But I think it needs to be (and so, I believe, did the beta readers). But I still don't quite know how to fix it. Trunked until something hits me over the head.
If I count the two little twitter fic pieces (one is in the cricket stage and the other rejected), I'm technically on target right now, but that feels a bit like cheating, so...
If I'd finished the story I'm working on now, I would have been totally caught up. But I'm stuck. The MC needs a con to run on the antagonist - he's not actually going to do it even, but it needs to feel like it would work - and I can't think of one. Oh well, it'll show up and maybe soon enough to do a 2nd May story and then I'll be caught up. (I don't want to just switch to another story as I'm afraid I'd never finish this one then and I like it.) But that's what I thought last month and it didn't happen.
But I'm happy. 4 solid stories and 2 twitter fics now. And a 5th story close.
Oh, and Clarkesworld keeps my rejection on my 'check here' page for me to look at and be discouraged about every time I refresh? eek. I hope *they* don't look at it. I count on them forgetting who I am and looking at new work with new eyes