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Old 12-15-2011, 01:31 AM   #2126
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Ah, bad luck.

I'm there at three days, so maybe I'll get an R sooner than I expected.

Project Deadlight, I don't know what to suggest. I've never subbed to them. I can't sub anywhere that takes postal subs until I get a new printer.

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Old 12-15-2011, 01:43 AM   #2127
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Boo. Rejection from The New Yorker today.

Oh, well. I have a couple other markets in mind, depending on who's open.
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Ah, bad luck. I'm there at three days, so maybe I'll get an R sooner than I expected.
I'm at two days at Apex and, with my sub to Clarkesworld, I might even got a double-R in my inbox when it all shakes out. Hurray!
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Sorry about the R's everyone I'm in the club yet again. Got a form from Analog today and the funniest personal rejection I've ever received:

"I'm really not sure what to make of this one. It's well-written, but decidedly weird, in a walking-talking-salmon, mind-expanding-hazelnut kind of way."

Mind expanding hazelnut lol I'm rolling over here.
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Old 12-15-2011, 03:44 AM   #2130
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A nice personal R from HFQ. They wanted to see something else, but I've got absolutely no heroic fantasy stories. Arghh!
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Old 12-15-2011, 06:13 AM   #2131
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I'd read that (-:
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Old 12-15-2011, 06:40 AM   #2132
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Sorry about the R, Alex! That's kind of positive though, but I hear you about not having the right story to send to a market when they say something like that. I have like one sword and sorcery story.

And thanks, Suzanne! Hopefully someone else will want to lol
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Though Brenda's does make me go: Not so bad for an R.
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Old 12-15-2011, 10:07 AM   #2134
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A nice personal R from HFQ. They wanted to see something else, but I've got absolutely no heroic fantasy stories. Arghh!
Incentive to write a new one, eh?

Other than my Apex R from this morning, crickets all around today. The story Apex bounced is going to just have to sit for a few weeks. The places I'd want to send it next all already have something of mine. Patience, grasshopper... Or something like that.

Crickets, grasshoppers... A regular insect menagerie in that paragraph.
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Old 12-15-2011, 06:10 PM   #2135
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So I didn't win the Glass Woman Ghost Story Contest, but I am waiting to see if I was among the 'top contenders'...it would be a nice consolation at least .
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Definietly time to write a new story Alex.

I've received 4 in the past two weeks (F&SF, Apex, IGMS, Flash Fiction Online). All are back out. I have some others at pro markets way over expected turnaround and I've suddenly decided to haunt dyotrope. I hate it!!!

ok back to the novel. I'm writing a starlit beach scene where my guy realizes he's in love with my female protag. it's an impossible relationship, but he's so sweet...
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Argh, a two rejection day! Personal R from Shimmer. It's special in that I've now reached at least 50 rejections! Whoo! Now to find a new market for it.
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Argh, a two rejection day! Personal R from Shimmer. It's special in that I've now reached at least 50 rejections! Whoo! Now to find a new market for it.
milestone. yay!
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((((hugs)))) for everyone.

I've had a load in recently. I had crickets for ages, and then a pile of Rs.
Maybe everyone is clearing out the slush before Christmas.

Brenda, that's a cracker of a rejection for Salmon man. Hope he finds a good home.
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Bad luck guys, hopefully it turns soon
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Since the admittedly disappointing R from TNY the other day it's been all crickets.

*cree-cree*

Nice. Not sure if the next batch will come in just before Christmas or sometime after New Years. :/
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how can you not try though, right? imagine being accepted there...
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Thanks Victoriajakes. It only hurts a little. Naturally, after the rejection I noticed the ending needed a little work. :P

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Yeah, exactly. I've been reading through their first book anthology for inspiration. (BTW, the fourth story Chewing Up The Innocent was amazing, though had absolutely no real spec-fic elements). My only hope is their standards for choosing are still the same now as they were then.

Resubmitted the rejected story somewhere else with a new title and a new ending.
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Another ASIM Personal R - said nice things about my writing, said they didn't get the point of the story.
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