Giving up?
Jul. 24th, 2011 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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aliettedb and her book SERVANT OF THE UNDERWORLD. kateelliott , one of my favorite authors, has read the book and pronounced it to be a "very well done fantasy mystery" and found her Mextica world "believable". Wow, that's awesome for Aliette.
I was reading the June Realms of Fantasy and had gotten about one page into one of the stories when I realized it was sounding *very* familiar. I knew I'd critted the author way back in Critters, so I went searching through my crits. (Yes, I saved them, and marked most with the author name.) I couldn't find that particular story, although I did find another one that appeared in the October '10 realms. That one, I didn't recall reading previously, even though I really liked the story--both times, according to my crit. But in reading through my crit, I realized I'd critted the same person in another, smaller crit group that I'd forgotten about. So I went looking in that folder, and sure enough, there's the story.
I find it interesting, and sometimes helpful for future critting, to read through a story after it's been published, to see if my crit suggestions had any merit. Not to pat myself on the back, mind you, but more to see if I was making helpful suggestions or not. I haven't done that yet because I didn't have a lot of suggestions to make in the story, plus I haven't finished the story as published yet.
But what I'm taking away from this is a lesson. Both stories I critted way back in 2005, as best I can tell, from the file date. So it took the author 6 years to get the stories published (I don't know if he/she was subbing them this entire time or not, maybe they sat in the trunk for that time. Did he/she despair of ever selling their baby?), and yet they were. And in a fine magazine like Realms, too.
The lesson, of course, is never give up on your babies.
aliettedb and her book SERVANT OF THE UNDERWORLD. kateelliott , one of my favorite authors, has read the book and pronounced it to be a "very well done fantasy mystery" and found her Mextica world "believable". Wow, that's awesome for Aliette.I was reading the June Realms of Fantasy and had gotten about one page into one of the stories when I realized it was sounding *very* familiar. I knew I'd critted the author way back in Critters, so I went searching through my crits. (Yes, I saved them, and marked most with the author name.) I couldn't find that particular story, although I did find another one that appeared in the October '10 realms. That one, I didn't recall reading previously, even though I really liked the story--both times, according to my crit. But in reading through my crit, I realized I'd critted the same person in another, smaller crit group that I'd forgotten about. So I went looking in that folder, and sure enough, there's the story.
I find it interesting, and sometimes helpful for future critting, to read through a story after it's been published, to see if my crit suggestions had any merit. Not to pat myself on the back, mind you, but more to see if I was making helpful suggestions or not. I haven't done that yet because I didn't have a lot of suggestions to make in the story, plus I haven't finished the story as published yet.
But what I'm taking away from this is a lesson. Both stories I critted way back in 2005, as best I can tell, from the file date. So it took the author 6 years to get the stories published (I don't know if he/she was subbing them this entire time or not, maybe they sat in the trunk for that time. Did he/she despair of ever selling their baby?), and yet they were. And in a fine magazine like Realms, too.
The lesson, of course, is never give up on your babies.
