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A totally random post
Sep. 6th, 2018 10:36 amIt isn't just that I'm not blogging here much -- I'm not "blogging" over at alpennia.com much at the moment. (Just posting the LHMP entries and getting caught up on some reviews.) It's mostly a time management thing. I'm solidly on schedule with the revisions for Floodtide, but that means prioritizing it first and then scrambling to make sure that I have the LHMP/podcast writing done on time.
Although Floodtide has needed a fair amount of cleaning up and filling in, it hasn't been as serious as I'd thought it was. (I think there are a few more places later in the story where past-me wrote an IOU to future me with regard to some key scenes.) The big revision item once I'm done with this pass will be to draw up some sort of "plot rhythm" diagram to make sure action and development is relatively evenly distributed.
One fun thing about Floodtide is writing Roz's first-person voice. I think I'm going to have to draw up some notes for the editor with regard to the linguistic structure of her voice. While I'm happy to have help ensuring consistency, there are some systematic things I'm doing that I'd hate to have to argue at every single point.
Still waiting (more patiently than I'd have predicted) on any response about the submission of "The Language of Roses". It's submitted through one of those online tracking systems and every once in a while I peek to see if it's moved in the queue. There was some initial movement up, then a long static period. Based on things other people have said, I think the initial movement was from all the obviously unsuitable submissions being sifted out, and the current movement would then be the "actual consideration" group starting to be processed. I think I'm going to try to avoid peeking from now on, because it's less stressful to pretend that I won't hear anything for months yet than to see it move to the top and be expecting to get a rejection at any moment. Yes, I've set my expectations to "expect a rejection" because that way I can be delighted rather than disappointed. Right after submitting, I allowed myself to imagine being accepted but that was when I knew it was far to early to hear. I also allow myself to think, "Well, here's the other market it would be great for, once I'm free to send it." The tricks we play on ourselves. People loved the excerpt I read from it at Worldcon. I keep telling myself that's a reason for hope.
I've unexpectedly had a request to look at my one completed but not-yet-sold short story (and Arthurian piece inspired by the Romance of Silence), so who knows what might happen there. I don't tend to write much short fiction on spec--normally I have a specific market in mind, so I don't have a lot of stories floating around through the submission rounds. I'd written this one for a particular story call, tried it a couple other places after that, then put it away figuring I'd wait until there was an opportunity it could target fairly closely. Maybe some day I'll have enough writing time that I can do more shorts on a just-because basis and then toss them to the winds.
Although Floodtide has needed a fair amount of cleaning up and filling in, it hasn't been as serious as I'd thought it was. (I think there are a few more places later in the story where past-me wrote an IOU to future me with regard to some key scenes.) The big revision item once I'm done with this pass will be to draw up some sort of "plot rhythm" diagram to make sure action and development is relatively evenly distributed.
One fun thing about Floodtide is writing Roz's first-person voice. I think I'm going to have to draw up some notes for the editor with regard to the linguistic structure of her voice. While I'm happy to have help ensuring consistency, there are some systematic things I'm doing that I'd hate to have to argue at every single point.
Still waiting (more patiently than I'd have predicted) on any response about the submission of "The Language of Roses". It's submitted through one of those online tracking systems and every once in a while I peek to see if it's moved in the queue. There was some initial movement up, then a long static period. Based on things other people have said, I think the initial movement was from all the obviously unsuitable submissions being sifted out, and the current movement would then be the "actual consideration" group starting to be processed. I think I'm going to try to avoid peeking from now on, because it's less stressful to pretend that I won't hear anything for months yet than to see it move to the top and be expecting to get a rejection at any moment. Yes, I've set my expectations to "expect a rejection" because that way I can be delighted rather than disappointed. Right after submitting, I allowed myself to imagine being accepted but that was when I knew it was far to early to hear. I also allow myself to think, "Well, here's the other market it would be great for, once I'm free to send it." The tricks we play on ourselves. People loved the excerpt I read from it at Worldcon. I keep telling myself that's a reason for hope.
I've unexpectedly had a request to look at my one completed but not-yet-sold short story (and Arthurian piece inspired by the Romance of Silence), so who knows what might happen there. I don't tend to write much short fiction on spec--normally I have a specific market in mind, so I don't have a lot of stories floating around through the submission rounds. I'd written this one for a particular story call, tried it a couple other places after that, then put it away figuring I'd wait until there was an opportunity it could target fairly closely. Maybe some day I'll have enough writing time that I can do more shorts on a just-because basis and then toss them to the winds.
