A first attempt...

[kellan_the_tabby]

This morning I sent out my first completed manuscript.

It's a story called 'Chickens in Paradise', and it was written for a sword and sorcery humor anthology. With any luck (okay, with a _lot_ of luck) the people who get to slog through the slush pile will think it's lovely and wonderful, and give me money and publish it.

It's due August 1. I pushed things way too late with getting it finished; I wound up paying extra at the post office to make sure it's in the PO Box in time. Which may be silly, but at least I know it won't get rejected due to something I could easily avoid.

The reading period is August 10-30; responses will be mailed out by September 5. So by the 10th or so, I should know either way.

If they don't accept it, I have a few other places in mind to send it. And I plan to do so immediately, should they not accept it. That's how it works: send the story out. If it comes back, send it back out. Lather, rinse, repeat. Revise every once in a while. Don't Give Up.

With, of course, adding other new things to the mix every once in a while. It doesn't pay to stop writing, any more than it pays to stop sending things out.

So now, I wait.

And write.

Comments

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

::crosses fingers, thinks good thoughts towards you, along with successful publication vibes::

[kellan_the_tabby]

Here's hopin'...

[baronadhemar.livejournal.com]

Yay you!!!!!! I'll send good vibes. :-)

[kellan_the_tabby]

Thanks, hun. :)

[pedropadrao.livejournal.com]

It's a good story-quality eventually wins through...:)

[kellan_the_tabby]

*grins* Thanks - though I'm already thinking of things to fix for next time...

[shrieking-ell.livejournal.com]

Go you!!!!

That is incredibly cool. Wow an actual MS submitted. You're my new hero!

[kellan_the_tabby]

*blushes a lot*

I could sit here and say 'it's not so hard' but it's been three quarters of a year since I really started writing and it's just now I've sent something out, so maybe not so much.

But you could do this, hun. Honest and for true you could. You've got the skills.

*hugs* Thanks, hun. You know you're one of the people who got me thinking I could, yes?

[shrieking-ell.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* I still think it's huge!

and if in some tiny way I contributed to helping you think you could - then I'm even happier!

[kellan_the_tabby]

*grins*

It's huge, yeah. And I'm proud as hell. And now I'm spending the afternoon researching magazines I can write nonfiction articles for, 'cos that's another way to make money doing this...

[wanderingpixie.livejournal.com]

*crossing fingers*

[kellan_the_tabby]

*and toes, and legs, and anything else flexible enough*

Thanks.

[montuos]

Hair! Lots and lots of hair can be crossed... ;>