Day 19
Today: 2,147 words
Total: 59, 027 words
To counterbalance the last two days, I had a harsh rejection today that hit me like a dragon punch to the head. Owie.
Work continued on Normal. It's going well, anyway. I don't have as much faith in my flash fiction today. Maybe I'm just trying to cram too much into a thousand words and it's not working, because almost all of it gets rejected. I still have one of my favorite flash fics out, so I still have hope for that one... but I don't know. I think I need to rethink my strategy. Maybe I need to just focus on my novels in 2009 and just do sporadic essays when I have a specific market in mind.
I still need to find a market for my ghostly short story, "First Fog," though. That one is good(?) and isn't flash.
The good news is that the rejection didn't send me into a three-day (or more) depressive sulk like they used to. I think I'm getting more used to them. Yay?
Total: 59, 027 words
To counterbalance the last two days, I had a harsh rejection today that hit me like a dragon punch to the head. Owie.
Work continued on Normal. It's going well, anyway. I don't have as much faith in my flash fiction today. Maybe I'm just trying to cram too much into a thousand words and it's not working, because almost all of it gets rejected. I still have one of my favorite flash fics out, so I still have hope for that one... but I don't know. I think I need to rethink my strategy. Maybe I need to just focus on my novels in 2009 and just do sporadic essays when I have a specific market in mind.
I still need to find a market for my ghostly short story, "First Fog," though. That one is good(?) and isn't flash.
The good news is that the rejection didn't send me into a three-day (or more) depressive sulk like they used to. I think I'm getting more used to them. Yay?