"She Drifts Down" (poem)
starting count: 0
ending count: 85
gain/loss: +85
Actual (processed) word count: 85

Total New Words (Day/Week): 85 / 85
Total for the Day: 85
Total for the Week: 85 After such a hectic week, it was nice to get ANY new words, even if only for this one small poem ( Read more... )

"Red Letters"
starting count: 2718
ending count: 2785
gain/loss: +67
Actual (processed) word count: 2785

Total New Words (Day/Week): 0 / 0
Total for the Day: 2785
Total for the Week: 13,995 "Red Letters" used to be just "Letters"--we'll see how the critters like the "new" title ( Read more... )

Two more rejections: "Painted" by Heliotrope and "This" by Harper's. "Painted"'s next stop: Clarkesworld. I have to look for a market for "This".

One acceptance: "Essence" by The Inspired Pen, though I think I mentioned that before.

Published as of right this minute: "God of Light" is in the Summer 2007 issue of Worlds of Wonder, and is ( Read more... )

Just received the acceptance this morning. The downside is that Inspired Pen has gone through some changes and is no longer paying. It really would have been nice to get $25 for the poem. *sighs ( Read more... )

Rejected.

Holding onto it until I hear from Dark Wisdom about the poems I sent there, then will package "Broken Tears" with that group.

Getting about time to query them too. Hrm . . . .

Books put in box that husband will have to move. Now back to the filing stack . . . .

"For The Children" revision
starting count: 131
ending count: 147
gain/loss: +16
Actual (processed) word count: 147

Being sent off to The Sun. Turn around as long as 6 months.

"Broken Tears" revision
starting count: 185
ending count: 184
gain/loss: -1
Actual (processed) word count: 185 Heading off to Poetry Magazine. Return time ( Read more... )

Whew! I didn't expect the poetry pile to take me 4 hours! 10 poems scanned; 3 set aside to think about, revise, then repost to DII; 7 revised and subbed all over the dang place.

Total processed words: 660
Total for the day: 660

Subbed:
"The American Way" to Bleeding Quill
"Ghost Reflections", "Too Much", "Soured Meat" to Glassfire Magazinel" ( Read more... )

I sent my poem, Dragon Dreams, to Illumen awhile back and ended up following up with a query in December. I don't know if he got the query (I suspect there may still be some holiday backlog there), but he did finally respond to the submission. I was checking email on my way to bed and found this:

"Dragon Dreams" is a good poem for Illumen, but ( Read more... )

Did a lot here, so ( cut to save your flist )

Monday started off with a splurge of writing energy, resulting in yet a third new short.

Scary.

Then a storm came through and I had to dive offline, so I worked on poetry revisions since the A.C. revisions are being stubborn. Unfortunately, the storm also sapped my motivation, and I didn't finish. Still, Monday's word count has alreay gone over ( Read more... )