These are great, Liese.
I will admit the first one takes me right to "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town," though!
Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.
'Heart Of Gold'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Amy - Jan 18, 2014 9:32:20 am PST #5911 of 6687
Because books.
hippocampus - Feb 11, 2014 6:38:55 am PST #5912 of 6687
not your mom's socks.
If you subscribe to Asimov's, next issue has a short story from me in there.
Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2014 6:51:27 am PST #5913 of 6687
brillig
Yay, you!
-t - Feb 11, 2014 6:58:14 am PST #5914 of 6687
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
WOO!
Amy - Feb 11, 2014 7:01:28 am PST #5915 of 6687
Because books.
Yay!
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 9:21:14 am PST #5916 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Congratulations! For myself, however, I'm beginning to think I've said all I've got to say, even though I haven't published that much. Fifteen rejections in a row really make you wonder that.
hippocampus - Feb 11, 2014 10:34:44 am PST #5917 of 6687
not your mom's socks.
Erika, In a row rejections are evil and I hate what they can do to your drive.
If it helps, I can tell you from reading for a magazine for over a year that the numbers are brutal and you should keep trying, keep writing new things, as much as you can, if that is what you want to do.
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:23:15 pm PST #5918 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
I know cold streaks happen, but this one seems exceptionally long and has left me feeling as though I don't know my own work.(I sent out a bunch of work over the last six months or so hoping to be desensitized, but it seems to have had the opposite effect.)
Amy - Feb 11, 2014 12:27:37 pm PST #5919 of 6687
Because books.
Maybe try something different? Write what means the most to you, instead of writing for a market, or write something you always told yourself you couldn't. Sometimes you just need to break out of a rut.
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:39:25 pm PST #5920 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know. It probably doesn't help that my life has barely two parts: writer/indigent(and not really the gritty Carver kind. I'm too weird to write normal things and yet? Not strange enough to get locked up and make "outsider art")ETA: Which I mention not to incite pity, but because it makes rejection extra crushing when there's not some part of your life where you're really satisfied to point to.