Five out the door
Once again my story submissions have slipped past my notice and the number of stories in circulation reached dangerously low levels. I managed to get five back out the door this weekend with another five lying in wait of attention. Maybe I’ll get them out by week’s end.
I need to do a thorough, introspective analysis of why I don’t do a better job of keeping them moving. Heck, one of those had only been to one market…in January. I let a perfectly good story sit and fester for ten months? Okay, it wasn’t really a “perfectly good” story. I recently described it as “unsaleable” which is pretty much the opposite of “perfectly good”. I was wrong, though, and now the story is out in the world, rubbing elbows with perfectly good stories. I’m making it a personal goal to sell that one.
I won’t wax on about how I need to get in gear on my steampunk story. That horse has been beaten to death. I made a little progress over Thanksgiving, but I need to grind out about 8k by Thursday to meet my goal of a finished draft by month’s end. Yeah…no point exploring the odds of that happening.
More when it’s less 1-AM-ish.
Scott W. Baker: Chaos out of Chaos 
Yeh, you gotta keep subbing. What putting you off? Rejections? I reckon I might as well know sooner rather than later. (although not HeyPublisher sooner, mutter . . .)
Time puts me off. And unholy desires to polish. It’s worst when I get feedback…because I always want to “fix”it, even when it’s not necessarily broken.
Interesting. I’ve been slavishly following Heinlein’s rules for the last two years. But it might be time for a change. Hey, you got to keep trying new things.
Yeah…Heinlein’s rules and I are passing acquaintances at best. https://scottwbaker.net/2011/10/16/my-worst-heinlein-rule/