Once again, I flash my assets
Apr. 25th, 2008 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
babarnettAs some folks already know from me babbling elsewhere, I queried Hub on a submission earlier this week and received a lovely reply that they'd like to publish "To Someone Who Needs Prayer." Yay-ness! Currently awaiting the contract and what issue it will be in, but I will be sure to shamelessly plug when the time comes.
I think the story was up to about 1,600 words when I had it critiqued at Odyssey. A few folks suggested the story would work better as a flash piece (I believe I owe props to![[info]](https://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
ericjamesstone andtodd_vandy for that, possibly others), and I had to agree. So after making some story-level revisions, I focused on getting it down to 1,000 words, which turned out to be harder than I thought it would be. But after many head-meets-desk moments, I did it. Well, if you want to be really picky about things, it ended up being about 20-something words over 1,000. Close enough for grenades and rounded-to-the-nearest-hundred submission word counts.
In the writerly progress department, things have been going well. There have been distractions aplenty this week (like taking on layout duty for a newsletter I normally only have to do the content editing on), and this weekend will be full of musical craziness (dress rehearsal tonight, concert tomorrow night, and yet more solo and choir singing on Sunday morning), but when I have sat down to write, the productivity has been a-flowing. I'm hoping I can finish and polish up the first draft of the short story I've been working on--the one with the unintentional and previously blogged about tense hopping, which is tentatively borrowing its title from an Emily Dickinson poem, "Nobody knows this little Rose."
I've already slacked on dedicating Tuesday nights to the novel revision, though. A few weeks ago, I spent my Tuesday night writing time with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shvetufae, vash137, and crew revising the orgy story. The Tuesday after that, I skipped out on the journey into Philly and fiddled with the tense-hopping story, but mostly slacked since the Sinus Headache from Hell kept coming and going all night. And this past Tuesday, I was in such a groove on the tense-hopper that I just kept going.
So on the bad side, my dedication to novel revisions is rubbish. On the good side, at least I'm slacking in favor of short story writing instead of DVDs and Mythbusters.
I think the story was up to about 1,600 words when I had it critiqued at Odyssey. A few folks suggested the story would work better as a flash piece (I believe I owe props to
ericjamesstone andtodd_vandy for that, possibly others), and I had to agree. So after making some story-level revisions, I focused on getting it down to 1,000 words, which turned out to be harder than I thought it would be. But after many head-meets-desk moments, I did it. Well, if you want to be really picky about things, it ended up being about 20-something words over 1,000. Close enough for grenades and rounded-to-the-nearest-hundred submission word counts.In the writerly progress department, things have been going well. There have been distractions aplenty this week (like taking on layout duty for a newsletter I normally only have to do the content editing on), and this weekend will be full of musical craziness (dress rehearsal tonight, concert tomorrow night, and yet more solo and choir singing on Sunday morning), but when I have sat down to write, the productivity has been a-flowing. I'm hoping I can finish and polish up the first draft of the short story I've been working on--the one with the unintentional and previously blogged about tense hopping, which is tentatively borrowing its title from an Emily Dickinson poem, "Nobody knows this little Rose."
I've already slacked on dedicating Tuesday nights to the novel revision, though. A few weeks ago, I spent my Tuesday night writing time with
shvetufae, vash137, and crew revising the orgy story. The Tuesday after that, I skipped out on the journey into Philly and fiddled with the tense-hopping story, but mostly slacked since the Sinus Headache from Hell kept coming and going all night. And this past Tuesday, I was in such a groove on the tense-hopper that I just kept going. So on the bad side, my dedication to novel revisions is rubbish. On the good side, at least I'm slacking in favor of short story writing instead of DVDs and Mythbusters.
