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[felis_ultharus]

So I've been working a lot more on my writing. This is something I've been meaning to do all summer, but I couldn't get past my school-induced writer's block until just yesterday (I've only been averaging 1-3 pages a day of fiction since January

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[ubergreenkat]

...short story contest... that place where i have been saying "i should get my ass in gear for that" every year for the past five years... still haven't. I always wonder how they'd feel about a) stories with an emphasis on sex, b) stories with swearing...

maybe submitting poetry would work better for me

[felis_ultharus]

I've entered the last two years, to no avail. The very first thing I ever sent out was to them, and I got my first rejection letter from the same. I'm thinking about framing it ^_^

[jenjoou]

Something about rejection letters always made me somewhat giddy rather than depressed.. it's wierd. Of course I suppose acceptance letters are better but I haven't got any of those yet so I guess any letter is good :D

[felis_ultharus]

Same for me. I've gotten so many non-responses that getting a rejection letter at least makes me feel like a human being. Half the time, I wonder if it even gets to them, and the other half I wonder if it was so bad it didn't merit a response:/

By the way, foi_nefaste is thinking tomorrow for a Gravi night. Does that work for you?)

[jc2004]

There's some abysmal crap being published. Poetry is kind of fun - I just had some published in velvet heat. It's a good way to break into the market - get into some sort of anthology. Good luck with the CBC short story competition. I always have such trouble with short stories. Everything comes out novels.

[felis_ultharus]

It tends to come out that way for me, too, but I think having a novel on the side is helping.

What's velvet heat?