Onwards into the future

[kiya]

I have achieved the point in my rejection-collecting career that my response to filling out a cover letter is not despair, but rather "Oh thank the gods, they don't want a short bio."

Also my spreadsheet is earning its keep; I saw a deadline was hitting, scanned my list of unsold stories to see what fit the qualifications, confirmed I hadn't submitted it to that venue, and just did the damn thing.

Comments

[graydon]

Very likely you shall!

And, well, new skills take practice. I'm still kinda blinking at the "another novel" feeling. Someday I might write a short story.

[kiya]

Short stories started happening in a combination of "children give me smaller chunks of brain to work with" and "hey, I'm writing real-time fanfic of an ongoing performance art piece, what happened today", and that was a fascinating skill bootstrapping for sure.

Also my novels are nichey in complex ways, meh.

[graydon]

I might not be the best person to comment on the nicheyness of novels!

Short stories is a lot to turn not enough time/brain into. "What happened today" seems like an applicable heuristic, too. (I have no idea how to apply it, but it seems applicable.)