I like number 3.

I finally got my rejection for my short story after nine months. It's free again. It's not that disappointing, it's the second short story I've ever written and that place gets so many submissions that it takes nine months or more to hear back. Now I can submit someplace that shouldn't take so long, just have to pick one out.

My Drollerie Press short stories are available to me for re-publishing. Is trying to get them re-published a waste of time, since the first publication rights are gone? Or should I use them as a resume to get something else published?

Connie - are they something that Drabblecast would be interested in? [link]

Also, you can do a duotrope search for markets that accept reprints - some do, depending on previous circulation.

Cool, thanks!

On tonight's installment of Thin-skinned writer is thin-skinned, insecure, and possibly crazy: my writing is not going as well as I would like, which happens. But someone on my FB posting a comment of "Jilli, this is getting to be a refrain. Enough with the wordcount broadcast already! Geez!" is not helping my mood.

t nope, the insecure and possibly crazy tag won't close

My college roommate's brother had, for the longest time, as his away message on IM a horoscope he'd once gotten: "You've always wanted a helper monkey, but your new harmer monkey will have to do."

I think that may be appropriate for you.

I feel your pain on the lack of word-count. This paper simply does not want to be written.

Ha! Harmer monkey! I think that's what I'll mentally tag that person as.

"Jilli, this is getting to be a refrain. Enough with the wordcount broadcast already! Geez!"

This person needs to not be friends with writers.

I've got a semi-stalker on LJ who keeps putting "helpful" notes in my posts like "great post, but could you put out the next bit of your fic soon?" Which is flattering in its small way but damned annoying.