Accomplishment

Last night I finally finished the final edit on the new story Bite Me. As well I rewrote a story I had written ten-plus years ago. Surprisingly, the writing was fairly clean but this distance of time let me see that I'd ended it too soon. I think I only ever sent it out once before so it's basically a new story. The title went from Angels Visit to Touch the Magic, which is more apt but maybe it should be Shadow World. Sometimes I get a title and then sometimes I really suck at picking them. Poetry titles make a big difference and I suck more there.

But I'm getting ready for the big sendoff. It will be ten-plus stories and the same with poems. Don't know the total count yet. I've probably already sent out ten stories in the last week to different markets. I would love to some day send out every poem I've written; good, bad or embarassing but that's a lot, maybe 200. I am perseverant to the point of insanity. It's easier to send out a bunch at once but then to find almost all of them come back and when you get many rejections in a week, gah!

Still, feels good to have those two stories completed. In the background are still the barge people story, but it's going to be a novella or longer by the time I'm done alas; the plague Gypsy story, the Cthulhu gamer story, the four species alien planet story/novellete, and a few others that are probably more than just a rewrite. New idea involves a doll maker. It's percolating, to be written after the errr, late taxes are done.

And disappointingly the story I wrote for the Baen SF contest did not win. Pooh. I think I had a good story but it was a challenge to write, not the type of SF I normally do and I had to rush to finish it. So now, time to look it over and send it elsewhere. And try to get it together on writing the novels.