Darkwing
Been a while since I popped in last, partly because my crickets have been happily chirping away, and partly because I haven't really been writing for the past two weeks . . . meh, it's Irish festival season, I was busy! Writing is hard when there are drunken parties to go to.
Anyway, just got a personal R from Fantasy and Science Fiction! I'm really excited about this one. I've gotten Rs in the past that I thought sounded vaguely personal, but decided to list them as form on Duotrope because they weren't very specific and just sounded like niceties. This one actually says that he thought there was "nice writing here" and that he liked the story's setting, but that "there isn't enough meat in this story to back it up."
Considering it's a story I wrote for a short story class in which the whole point was to experiment with writing stories in different styles of narrative time, I feel really good about this R. It's kinda restored my hope, and now I can send it out to the next mag without feeling like all my work must be terrible crap.
Anyway, just got a personal R from Fantasy and Science Fiction! I'm really excited about this one. I've gotten Rs in the past that I thought sounded vaguely personal, but decided to list them as form on Duotrope because they weren't very specific and just sounded like niceties. This one actually says that he thought there was "nice writing here" and that he liked the story's setting, but that "there isn't enough meat in this story to back it up."
Considering it's a story I wrote for a short story class in which the whole point was to experiment with writing stories in different styles of narrative time, I feel really good about this R. It's kinda restored my hope, and now I can send it out to the next mag without feeling like all my work must be terrible crap.