If you subscribe to Asimov's, next issue has a short story from me in there.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
hippocampus - Feb 11, 2014 6:38:55 am PST #5912 of 6734
not your mom's socks.
Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2014 6:51:27 am PST #5913 of 6734
brillig
Yay, you!
-t - Feb 11, 2014 6:58:14 am PST #5914 of 6734
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 6734
Because books.
Yay!
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 9:21:14 am PST #5916 of 6734
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
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 6734
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 6734
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
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 6734
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 6734
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
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.
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:40:30 pm PST #5921 of 6734
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Well, okay, maybe I'm strange enough and haven't got caught yet.