Progress of a sort

[kfabian]

Four rejections! I'm really making progress with that whole new year's resolution thing. \o/ Weirdly, the second rejection was the only one that really stung -- not, of course, anyone's fault, it was just in that uncomfortable space where it had neither the cushion of novelty nor what I'm starting to think of as the second-hand sofa with the weird stain on the left arm of being one of many.

Anyway!

Short story status:

1 published (golems!)
4 rejections
1 really good story that just hasn't found a home yet (demons)
1 in progress (transmutation)
1 finished but now sitting in a drawer until I work out what to do with it (tree in the garden of winter)

Longer works:

12 000 words on a superhero romance for Samhain Publishing
No progress on the post-magical-war thing

Comments

[gool_duck]

Hurray! Go you!

Submit the rejected stories to other places! Nevar give up! Nevar surrender!

I have run out exclamation marks.

[kfabian]

<3! I appreciate the encouragement and exclamation marks.

I have already submitted the demons story yet again! It helps that I really, really like this story, so I'm honestly convinced it's just a matter of finding it a home. Hopefully it will not manage to make up too many of my target twelve rejections.

[bravecows]

Wooo, well done!

My thing is that I have to send each story to ten different markets before I give up. It helps because it makes things less personal! One does tend to run out of markets, though ...

[kfabian]

*grins* Thank you!

Ten markets, wow. (My subconscious keeps on typing "marks", as if I'm playing a confidence trickster in a slightly cheesy movie. If this is its way of manifesting impostor syndrome, I'm impressed by the subtlety.)