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In one of those funks, have been all week, haven't written all week which sucks because I feel it. I do have about a dozen subs out there, though. But still, sigh.
I'm in a funk, too.
In one of those funks, have been all week, haven't written all week which sucks because I feel it. I do have about a dozen subs out there, though. But still, sigh.
I'm gathering this is where we check in and hold ourselves accountable for progress?
I posted a new flash piece in fantasy SYW based on this week's prompt, hooded. Did some research on places to submit. I was thinking about Cicada, the YA branch of cricket for my Chinese girl story. I'm probably going to wimp and call it Mei Li because I can't think of anything else.
Has anybody submitted to Cicada, or do you know anything about it? All I know is I used to like reading Cricket to my kids and they pay up to 25 cents a word. I don't get that up to, though. Why don't they just say what they pay?
In one of those funks, have been all week, haven't written all week which sucks because I feel it. I do have about a dozen subs out there, though. But still, sigh.
It's not how much, it's the staying at it that counts. Glad you're making progress.
Cathleen, Welcome.
Zanzjan, Post-Worldcon gallivanting and a supervolcano and a new blood-tasting avatar... good inspirations. We've had a red tide and 6.0 earthquake inland from here on the Northern California coast. I aspire to gallivant.
Odd as it may sound, I find hiking helps. Getting out in nature recharges my creativity and productivity.
I finished editing the first section of the Gothic horror novel Monday, so I'm more than a third of the way through the 3rd draft.
V1C, Gnome — Sometimes after a field lies fallow it produces better than before. Odd as it may sound, I find hiking helps. Getting out in nature recharges my creativity and productivity. Reading high-impact fiction works, too. Most effective of all, set a date and time and do it. Dorothea Brande's book kicked me into that. Her approach to writing is total tough-ass.
Uh, question, how long do you let short stories sit before you go at them with a machete? I mean edit. Edit is the word I was looking for...
Does anyone else have any ideas on how to keep track of this stuff? I see lots of you with multiple submissions running simultaneously. Does anybody have better ideas for managing this? And if so, would you share them?
Thanks.
Cathleen, right now I'm using the Submissions Grinder to keep track of everything. I realize I should have my own spreadsheet and stuff but I'm really, really lazy.
Uh, on a scale of 1 to 10, how stupid of an idea is it to submit something without it being beta'ed? Perhaps I should say that this is an ~500 word piece.
I finally sent out six stories last night that I had allowed to collect over the summer rejections. No rejections this morning as a result I also decided it was time to start querying agents and sent one off this morning. We'll see how long this new schedule I created lasts.