A first attempt...
Jul. 28th, 2005 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellan_the_tabbyThis 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.
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.
