Happy Squeeeeeeal!
Oct. 18th, 2007 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
musingaloudI just received an email with the happy news that my short story, "Kenny's Guardian Angel" has been accepted by From the Asylum! It's a fitting venue, because although I'm quite fond of Kenny, he's actually just a tad unhinged-- not that it's his fault, of course.
It's been a long dry spell since my last acceptance letter. Almost a year.
*does the happy dance*
I'd really love it if this was the beginning of a new trend for me, cause all those rejections were starting to eat my skin away. The only bad thing is that I haven't a lot of stories finished, due to my time constraints now with the baby-sitting. Aw, don't listen to me, in actuality it's nothing but laziness and more laziness.
To keep my feet firmly rooted in the mire, I also received a rejection today. And I'm afraid it signals the end of that story. The concept of the story is one that I *really* like, but it keeps drawing the same comments, so I'm afraid I have to accept that there's a fundamental flaw, that being that the POV character is not engaging at all. Possible that I can re-do it and keep the basic story. But for now the story's going into hibernation.
But still, the acceptance trumps the rejection and takes the sting away--that and the fact that I accept the feedback as true. I'll focus on the acceptance comment: "Thanks for a wonderful piece!"
Yay!
It's been a long dry spell since my last acceptance letter. Almost a year.
*does the happy dance*
I'd really love it if this was the beginning of a new trend for me, cause all those rejections were starting to eat my skin away. The only bad thing is that I haven't a lot of stories finished, due to my time constraints now with the baby-sitting. Aw, don't listen to me, in actuality it's nothing but laziness and more laziness.
To keep my feet firmly rooted in the mire, I also received a rejection today. And I'm afraid it signals the end of that story. The concept of the story is one that I *really* like, but it keeps drawing the same comments, so I'm afraid I have to accept that there's a fundamental flaw, that being that the POV character is not engaging at all. Possible that I can re-do it and keep the basic story. But for now the story's going into hibernation.
But still, the acceptance trumps the rejection and takes the sting away--that and the fact that I accept the feedback as true. I'll focus on the acceptance comment: "Thanks for a wonderful piece!"
Yay!
