Rejections!

I find that I sort of like when editors screw up. It makes them seem more like actual human beings and not just entities that exist to squish my dreams. I've been doing quite well with keeping up with my submissions in the past month, so I've been getting a pretty high number of rejection slips.

Strangely, most of them have been nice. Even the normally scathing Clarkesworld rejection was pleasant. I like nice rejections even more than I like when editors typo my name. True, they're not all that useful for future editing, but I have a writing group for that. I really like when I get a rejection, read it, and then think, "Yeah, I do really want to submit to them again." I especially love when I really feel like they would honestly LIKE to see more of my work. It makes me feel like I might actually be getting somewhere.

In more happy news, I wrote two stories this week. Yes, that's right. Two. One of them I finished in a single day. Paul says I'm prolific. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I'm sure as hell kicking his slow ass.

I wrote bio for Trail of Indiscretion a while ago. I don't know if it was any good at all, but they asked for one. They're putting the magazine that my story is going to be in together! I think I'll actually be excited about it when the copies that are my payment come. I don't think it'll really sink in until I see it in print.

Which is strange, since my very first acceptance type thing filled me with such a huge wave of overpowering joy that I had to go outside for fifteen minutes and jump up and down and call everyone I could think of to call. I guess I did win $100 for that and I'm not seeing any money for "Boy Meets Girl," but at the same time, my PARSEC story didn't get printed anywhere. Though at that point I sort of thought that it would. Communication wasn't the clearest ever. But anyway. I did enter the contest again this year. I'd love to win. Winning is awesome.