Polter-Cow! The October issue of Asimov's has a familiar name under Coming Soon!
I get my vicarious thrills where I can.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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-t - Sep 22, 2015 2:06:04 pm PDT #6367 of 6686
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Polter-Cow - Sep 22, 2015 7:50:28 pm PDT #6368 of 6686
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Polter-Cow! The October issue of Asimov's has a familiar name under Coming Soon!
AAAAHHHH WHAT SHIT AAAHHHH.
Oh God what does it say does it say anything.
-t - Sep 22, 2015 8:25:51 pm PDT #6369 of 6686
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Let's see if this works. [link]
Polter-Cow - Sep 23, 2015 4:25:58 am PDT #6370 of 6686
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Laura - Sep 23, 2015 4:54:27 am PDT #6371 of 6686
Our wings are not tired.
Let's see if this works. [link]
Sure does! Wheee!
Zenkitty - Sep 23, 2015 6:33:31 am PDT #6372 of 6686
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
You didn't know you were Coming Soon, P-C?
Polter-Cow - Sep 23, 2015 7:11:39 am PDT #6373 of 6686
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I did know, but I didn't know my name was currently in an issue of Asimov's !
erikaj - Sep 23, 2015 10:25:47 am PDT #6374 of 6686
Always Anti-fascist!
Honestly, I've gotten so many rejections lately, I'm really starting to ponder what a post-writing future would look like(of course, right after I spent money I can't get back on a workshop on Building Better Characters.)
I don't know if I would really stop, but it's getting harder and harder to get the optimism up to face those damn "submission managers" and every time I get back a no, the voice in my head that says "You don't have to do this," gets louder(of course, the world wouldn't blame me if I just sat around looking tragic for the rest of my days, only to pause to blurt out like a six-year-old "my legs don't work." so I don't even know if that's my inner voice or Ableism.) And are there really real-life Sue Hecks out there that read the "kinder, gentler" rejections and think "Woo hoo...they think looking at my work is a privilege!" because it really doesn't help me at all.
erikaj - Sep 23, 2015 10:40:01 am PDT #6375 of 6686
Always Anti-fascist!
Asimov's rejected me too, recently, but at least that one made sense. I think that story is science-fictionish, but they don't. It's one thing to think "What the hell...aim high," not care about the result that much. It's the closest to SF that I've ever written except the one about what could happen if fun were a thing you could buy, but it's not what they had in mind. But most lit mags have these generic guidelines, blah, blah "fresh" "dynamic"..."Make us see life in a new way!" Which sounds good until you realize no mag would admit to publishing the same old crap.ETA: Sunil, that's great. I hear they pay well and promptly, which, although not my *motivation* for getting in, definitely helps. Hope it turns out that is true.
Zenkitty - Sep 23, 2015 11:11:53 am PDT #6376 of 6686
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
"Make us see life in a new way!"
Oh, no pressure. I'm unsure that anyone would want to see life the way I had in mind with this one story I was plotting out today.