10 posts tagged “tsp”

Having polished it up, I decided to send TSP off to Aberrant Dreams. Now, I've sent this story out most out of everything I've written, so I don't mind that it takes AD anywhere from one to five months to get back to you.

Just clicked on 'send', time to forget this thing even exists.

I'm now editing TSP, and I can't believe I sent it out. It's full of stupid mistakes. I'm almost ashamed.

Thanks for giving me a look at "The Small Print." Though I enjoyed the story's concept, I'm afraid it's not quite right for Farrago's Wainscot .

First personal rejection evar!

Well, for fiction that is. I've had people say 'no' to me in real life. Bugger it, you get the idea.

Before I send TSP out again, I'm going to give it a considerable rewrite. My writing style has changed since I penned this, and it needs updating.

One thing I'm glad about is that someone else liked the story's concept. I was beginning to think that it was just me being unrationally proud of something I'd done.

OMG. I can't believe all the stuff that's been happening recently.

You're probably going to need it.

I just sent it off to Farrago's Wainscot because they have an awesome name and they were advertised on one of the spec fic comms I watch on LJ.

Will this little guy ever get published? Who knows.

I'm going to wait for EP to get back to me on the story they currently have - The Cape - and then I'll send them TSP. I think TSP would work well in audio format - I wrote it as if it were something I was telling someone, rather than an actual short story. Also, I think that The Cape is more suited to Pseudopod than Escape Pod, so I'll send that off to PP once I've heard back on Bobby.

I'm about halfway through a new short story featuring Susan, Mitchell, a monster and a fair bit of violence. Oh, and some tea. I wanted to work on it tonight, but I'm shattered. I've been helping a friend paint her new bedsit the past few days, and it's quite knackering.

I shouldn't complain, really. One of my neighbours has been doing archaeological digs for the past week and a half and he has another week and a half to go. I have a big load of nothing planned, except for getting that room painted, meeting up with Len to get the remaining 2/3 of our script plotted and hanging out with Leontine tomorrow. Not exactly strenuous.

Oh, and I've got to go down the temp agency. I have three months of freedom stretching out in front of me, and I would like some monies. I want to buy books and clothes and subscriptions to fiction magazines. The latter wish is quite expensive, what with me living in Dutchland, but I'm sure I'll manage.

Bugger this, my head feels like it's full of something fluffy yet heavy.

Hello,

Thank you for submitting "The Small Print" to The Edge of Propinquity
webzine.  I am sorry but this story does not meet our needs at this
time.

Thank you,
Jennifer Brozek
Editor, The Edge of Propinquity

About time I heard something back. Actually, maybe it was fast. There isn't any info on the site about how long it should take them to get back to you, so yeah.

Right, just sent TSP off to The Edge of Propinquity, which sounds very ominious but isn't really.

Jennifer Pelland, a sci fi author with a very nice LJ, sends off her rejected work within 24 hours of receiving notice that it hasn't been accepted. I think this is a pretty good policy, really.

Also, any struggling writers should just read Ms. Pelland's LJ. I've found it to be very inspiring and extremely comforting when I was feeling particularly crap about my chances of getting publishing. It reminds me that even good writers don't have it easy.

It's like a little mini-anniversary!

So, I did indeed finish another story before I sent Subscription off to Permuted Press. However, to be fair, my internet did die for a few days. Well, technically, it got Alzheimer's or just plain went senile. Or, it could have had a stroke and as a result suffered short term memory loss.

If the latter's the case, I'll have to have someone look at my mum's DNS thingie.

Anyway, Subscription has been sent out there to fend for itself in the scary world of horror publishing.

I also finished a story I started last year, initially intended as a Christmas present for my family in England. It's about a zombie bunny called Bobby. The story was inspired by some amigurumi I did:

I find his crapness adorable and endearing.

So, that particular story has been sent off to Marijn and awaits his opinion. When it's done, I'm going to send it off to Pseudopod. I've been looking at the short stories I've finished so far, and there's nothing that I want to send off to Pseudopod now that I have my zombie bunny story finished. I'm going to have to find a new market for TSP because... (go see my next entry! O THE SUSPENSE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE HAD YOU NOT READ MY NEXT ENTRY BEFORE THIS ONE)

Jubilation!

So, today I sent off my very first short story submission. The story in question is Last Living Souls, which I wrote last year when I was trying to do new things.

For a while, I was stuck with the idea that you had to write novels. Now I realise that novel writing is all well and good and all that, but short stories - as in, just around 1,000 words - are also fine. Epic does not equal good, just like short does not equal bad.

So, yeah, Last Living Souls was submitted to OG's Magazine of Speculative Fiction I'm pretty sure I'm going to be rejected - after all, it's my first time ever submitting something - but it's an experience. A nervewracking, mind boggling, bouncy, fun experience. It's like lesbian sex without the boobs.

The Small Print was sent to Dark Wisdom. I've always been secretly proud of TSP, and therefore reluctant to send it out, but Dark Wisdom seemed like a good magazine to send it to, so off it went. Time to just send stuff out once I feel that it's done.

I'm currently waiting for my beta-reader (Marijnski) to get his arse into gear and read Subscription, which will be my submission for the Cthulhu crossover anthology over at Permuted Press. It's going to need a load of polishing (I tend to read that word as if it means 'to make as if it comes from Poland' and then I giggle and then people look at me weird) and I think the pacing is weird but I just can't help but love the idea of a noir-style detective story set in what is essentially Great Yarmouth with Lovecraftian influences.

In case you're interested, the story is set in the same place, with the same characters and themes as my serial. Yes, I will keep pimping that thing like crazy. I've finally decided that maybe getting published one day is more important than people reading my stuff and lauging at me. That's a pretty big step for me; up until NaNoWriMo '05, I wouldn't even let Marijnski read my stuff.

Anyway, I've looked up a load of magazines that accept e-mail submissions. What with me being stuck in Holland and all, I'm not about to go mailing manuscripts to America every other week. Maybe I will in a few years, if I've gotten published by that time, but I'm just going to take it one step at a time. Scraping together the courage to actually submit something is one thing, but actually getting stuff printed is something else entirely.

Captain Obvious signing off.