Posted by DLThurston in Capsule, Contests, Editing, Short Stories, State of the Writer on March 1, 2011
Time again for my monthly look at where I stand, and where I’m going. Really, this is a bit of recap since I already made a post declaring March as short story editing month. February saw no news on submitted stories, nor any new stories submitted. March should see two going out, one that needs and edit, and one that I’m frantically trying to finish for an April 1 deadline but haven’t yet finished the first draft.
Calendars can be scary things.
February was one of my more productive months in far too long. I’ve always been a momentum writer and I lost a lot of that momentum for most of 2010. I think this blog is helping me stage the comeback, because even though readership is light according to Google Analytics, it still forces me to look in a mirror occasionally and say “what are you doing if you want to keep calling yourself a writer?”
I was looking for a good anthology to be my next challenge, and can’t seem to find one that really calls to me. Okay, that’s a lie, I found one that interested me, but I can’t get behind “exposure is your payment” type things. Sorry, exposure doesn’t get me closer to SFWA membership. And really, exposure-as-payment deals typically don’t have all that much of the former and thus lack even more in the latter. So that’ll probably be even more incentive for March to be an editing month.
And who knows, maybe if I get both stories where I like them, even doing some Capsule work.
blogging, Capsule, editing, The Face of the Serpent, The Luchador, Vampires of Mars, writing
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DL Thurston's short fiction is available now in the Steam Works anthology, and coming soon in The Memory Eater and The Old Weird South. He also contributes regularly to the group blog Unleaded, Fuel for Writers and the online 5 Minute Fiction writing challenge. He lives in Annandale, VA with his wife and two cats.
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