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Rejection: a new genre
Got a rejection for my Jewish old man story today from The New Yorker:
We're sorry to say that this manuscript is not right for us, in spite of its evident merit. Unfortunately, we are receiving so many submissions that it is impossible for us to reply more specifically. We thank you for the chance to consider your work.
The Editors
It seems too ( Read more... ) -
Wordcounts! Apocalypse!
April 22: 902
April 23: 1056
April 24: 0 (Excuse du jour: worked 8 hrs at day job)
April 25: 1363
April 26: 548
April 27: 421 (?)
April 28: 692
You can see my wordcount slowed abruptly. That's because on Saturday I brainstormed some ideas with Sara K. and decided to change a bunch of things. I think these things will make it better, but it ( Read more... ) -
The Birth of a Novel
April 16, 2009: 867
April 17, 2009: 1022
April 20, 2009: 1003
April 21, 2009: 926
You can see I took myself a nice long weekend in there. What can I say, my brother was here. Today I'm only up to 300 or so, but I don't have to go to work, so I have time. But my point is that these wordcounts are fairly high (for me) and remarkably steady.
Also, I have a ( Read more... ) -
OMG THE WARM FUZZIES!!!
If you get HBO, go watch The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. It's very much a show where the good guys win, the bad guys go to jail, and the slightly misguided guys donate money to charities to make up for what they've done. Does it get any better?
Plus, Jill Scott.
PLUS, awesome music that is enough on its own to bring joy into your heart.
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On appearances
Adventureland, if I were to go by the previews, seemed like it should have been funny and quirky. I like movies about the 80s, I like the movies made by other people involved in it. However, snoooooooooore. Seriously, so boring. The whole thing is about being angsty about sex, OMG about weed, and casual about drinking. Which might have been ( Read more... ) -
Curses!
Thwarted! It seems like I blink and suddenly a month has gone by without my submitting, revising, or even trying to figure out where the next place is to send a short story. Today I'm looking for a home for "Tornado Juice," but the two places I want to send it to most are Weird Tales, which is closed to submissions until Memorial Day, and Realms of ( Read more... ) -
Ouch
Iowa becomes third state to legalize gay marriage
Hooray!
And also...Iowa? California, hang your head low. Very, very low.
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Odyssey!
Odyssey class time is split between workshopping sessions and lectures. An advanced, comprehensive curriculum covers the elements of fiction writing in depth. Students learn the tools and techniques necessary to strengthen their writing.
The workshop runs from June 8th to July 17th, 2009. Class meets for four hours in the morning, five days a ( Read more... ) -
Beautiful old picture time
I am sorting through one of our mountains of CDs today, hoping to find the one that contains Photoshop. My computer crashed a few months ago, and although I managed to save all my docs, we wiped everything else.
But that means it's fun random picture time! Yay kids! Our first batch is from 2005--these are photos my uncle took of the farm in Northern ( Read more... ) -
Fantasy anthologies
Bah, Tornado Juice came back with a form rejection. Like I said, at least it's fast ( Read more... )