Good luck to everybody.
I've actually figured out an angle on mine that will work for a revision to make it suitable for other speculative markets. That doesn't mean it'll be any
good, but it would work and keep it from being a one-shot wonder submission with nowhere to go after it bounces home. Whether I'll want to do the work on it, I don't know, when I could take the same general theme I used and switch the circumstances to write a whole new story. We'll see.
I haven't looked at mine since yesterday, and am almost ready to start revising. I noticed, as often happens to me, the character and idea evolved during the writing, so I have a few major changes to make to the beginning. By the time I get to my endings, I've usually found a better way to tell the story or developed another angle, then need to fix the beginning and some details throughout like that's what I'd been thinking all along. Those are some of the best moments, even though I know when that it happens it means I'm not as close to done as I thought I was.
My ending was also a bit too heavy on narrative because I was getting antsy and wanting to get it all down to see if it actually worked. My middle, however, seems pretty solid. If I do say so.
I'm almost finished editing a much longer story, then I'll start on this one. I hope to submit it later tonight sometime.
Shelley