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I had been trying to post here more regularly. I can at least try for once a week? I feel like am in a negative feedback loop, where I don't have anything interesting to say, so I get little response, so I feel less incline to post stuff. I am not all that interesting I suppose! Plus also the fact that I am also terrible at reciprocity. Sorry to those in LJ land - I read LJ more regularly from home, but I can only comment if I open another browser and sometimes that extra effort is too much :p I can comment from work but I don't always remember to do read :p
I have a Library of Distractions to pull from when I am at work - I usually have at least one thing going on. Usually that one this is IRC or some other kind of casual drop-in group chat and/or PMs with specific folks. Other than that, the regular offenders are facebook, twitter, LJ and dw, ravelry (mostly stalking/lurking :p), seasonal obsessions mostly related to yuletide... I'm probably forgetting some other bits. All the articles that people link to on those sites, I suppose. My need for different types of external engagement waxes and wanes. Some days I need allll the things, other times I'm just casually browsing IRC convos and occasionally commenting here and there. I need music to focus. my mind wanders all over the place if it is quiet. Many is the day where I have been wondering why I'm not getting anything done, only to realize that I havent' put on any music. I work mostly alone at the moment, which makes this easier to manage.
Anyway, I did not have a very productive day today, for various reasons, but I'm not overly concerned as on the whole I am zooming along on my various objectives.
See? Not very interesting >.>
I got an official rejection letter from She Walks in Shadows a few days ago - I probably think too much about these things, but what they said was "Unfortunately, we can't use it, but we greatly appreciate your time and effort in submitting it." It strikes me as odd phrasing and I'm not sure what to make of it. Well, other than thanks but no thanks! There is an open submission period for another Female author Lovecraft anthology, but I feel like it is an even longer shot (Joyce Carol Oates is headlining the book, so yeah). But hey - I already have it ready to go, right? Might as well? Submissions are open until the 27th, anyway.
In other writing news, I got one trope bingo story done this weekend in a fit of inspiration \o/ And I am closing in on finishing my giant doom Diablotin story that no one will read (/o\) so that's good. Well, one person. One person other than me will definitely read it and is very interested and invested, but she is also my beta. A few other people will humor me when I poke them. 11600 words in! I'm stubborn, what can I say... Probably if I commit to these things I should whine less.... And I wonder why no one reads/comments >.>
Alright, time to disengage from the cat and see about dinner.
I have a Library of Distractions to pull from when I am at work - I usually have at least one thing going on. Usually that one this is IRC or some other kind of casual drop-in group chat and/or PMs with specific folks. Other than that, the regular offenders are facebook, twitter, LJ and dw, ravelry (mostly stalking/lurking :p), seasonal obsessions mostly related to yuletide... I'm probably forgetting some other bits. All the articles that people link to on those sites, I suppose. My need for different types of external engagement waxes and wanes. Some days I need allll the things, other times I'm just casually browsing IRC convos and occasionally commenting here and there. I need music to focus. my mind wanders all over the place if it is quiet. Many is the day where I have been wondering why I'm not getting anything done, only to realize that I havent' put on any music. I work mostly alone at the moment, which makes this easier to manage.
Anyway, I did not have a very productive day today, for various reasons, but I'm not overly concerned as on the whole I am zooming along on my various objectives.
See? Not very interesting >.>
I got an official rejection letter from She Walks in Shadows a few days ago - I probably think too much about these things, but what they said was "Unfortunately, we can't use it, but we greatly appreciate your time and effort in submitting it." It strikes me as odd phrasing and I'm not sure what to make of it. Well, other than thanks but no thanks! There is an open submission period for another Female author Lovecraft anthology, but I feel like it is an even longer shot (Joyce Carol Oates is headlining the book, so yeah). But hey - I already have it ready to go, right? Might as well? Submissions are open until the 27th, anyway.
In other writing news, I got one trope bingo story done this weekend in a fit of inspiration \o/ And I am closing in on finishing my giant doom Diablotin story that no one will read (/o\) so that's good. Well, one person. One person other than me will definitely read it and is very interested and invested, but she is also my beta. A few other people will humor me when I poke them. 11600 words in! I'm stubborn, what can I say... Probably if I commit to these things I should whine less.... And I wonder why no one reads/comments >.>
Alright, time to disengage from the cat and see about dinner.
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Pity about the rejection! That sort of thing is always disappointing.
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I will give up IRC over my dead body. It has been part of my life pretty much since I discovered the internet, back in the days of using telnet shells @_@
And the rejection such, but I'm more used to getting them than not. Just this one was worded differently enough from others I have received that it kind of threw me off. That said, I remembered another all-female-author Lovecraft anthology that has an open submission period, so if I can get my shit together I will try it there as well ^-^ It has been much more thoroughly edited and refined at this point, too, and the word count has been wrangled into something more manageable for submission elsewhere as well. Before it was too long for most magazines, now it is a comfortable 4 or 5 K (I forget >.>)
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It's interesting to hear your general internet... stomping grounds, I guess. Sort of like what the layout of your Internet house looks like.
It's good that there's another anthology to submit the story to, even if its standards may be very high. Would you like to have another look at the story? (A much lighter look than last time, of course!) Or does it just need to rest?
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As for the story, I need to have a look at it myself first and see what I think, which I will hopefully be able to manage this weekend so - after that I'll let you know, and we'll see if you have time/inclination :D Thanks!