Poem: No new poems. 1 rejection, 2 rejections total. Short Stories: Wrote: Open All the Doors (F) The Person who Put Down the Keys (SF) Inappropriate Gifts (F/H) Treif (F/H) (just finished. Haven’t sent out yet) Published: No new stories published. One story, “Miracle, Texas,” accepted by Nil Desperandum. Rejections: 7 for February 21 for […]
I had a dream last night that I was back at an old job, two jobs ago (there were several people there from one job ago, but hey, it was a dream). There was a big party going on for something or other at work (that job was all about throwing parties for no apparent
You can hate me if you like. Ever since I started freelancing, Sunday nights have not gotten any better; I still dislike them. They’re all about not doing something, and instead getting ready for Monday. But I like Mondays now. It’s this chance to reassess where I am, freelancing, and kind of start all over
So I’ve talked you into it. You’re committed to writing those 10 million new words (or however many you have left, give or take a million). You’re committed to sending your submissions out. But, if you’re like I was, you’re not really sure how to go about it. How do you get a ton of
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I finally finished reading my second pass through Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Freelancer’s Survival Guide. You can also read the book for free on the author’s website, but I wanted to put it on my Nook so I didn’t have to sit in front of the computer for 200K. It’s a long one. It could probably be
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I had people over for writer’s group last night. Jalen got lost on the way to the house, and I had to talk her down on the phone. Because Lee normally makes the coffee, I ended up making coffee for the first time in maybe a year and a half and forgot to put the
You know, I always feel self-conscious about talking about the mice in our house, as though people are outraged that I have mice in my house. Yet they aren’t. I think we’re moving into an endgame. I hope. The fight against the mice is hampered by the necessity to not actually kill them; killing them
I published my first story on Smashwords* yesterday. Woo hoo! There are some things I wanted to note about the story and the process, but I figured most people wouldn’t want to hear me blah blah about them. Where do you blah when you must blah and you have no other blah blah?** On your
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I’ve talked about why failing so hard, why we aren’t failing enough, talent vs. hard work, and success. Not that I get a huge number of comments on a post or anything, but I got a lot fewer comments on the success post than I did on anything else. People like to talk smack about
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I’ve talked about why failing is so hard and that we need to give ourselves more opportunities to fail, if we’re going to succeed. I’ve talked about the idea that we need to be talented writers instead of hard workers and how useless it is. Now it’s time to talk about success. What is success?
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