Bah, humbug!
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manWell, here it is on the eve of another Limmud, and I've still got a big pile of unprocessed notes from the last one and Limmud Fest. That's what comes of having a girlfriend to take up your time, I suppose, so I shouldn't complain.
Speaking of writing, I got a letter in response to one of the stories I'm still theoretically sending occasionally out. It wasn't the normal form letter; it constituted several pages, and as I flipped through it I discovered they were critiques of the story. At that point I got excited, as if it was a simple rejection, I wouldn't have got so much detail back. Perhaps it might be a sale contingent on requested rewrites. So I flipped back to the front and discovered they'd bought it outright (admittedly, requesting changes)! A sale, to a major SF magazine! (And not one of the small press magazines I made my two extant sales to.)
Then I woke up.
Boy, was I disappointed.
(And IRL, the submissions referred to above have been completely theoretical for probably over a year now (though still on my to-do list).)
Speaking of writing, I got a letter in response to one of the stories I'm still theoretically sending occasionally out. It wasn't the normal form letter; it constituted several pages, and as I flipped through it I discovered they were critiques of the story. At that point I got excited, as if it was a simple rejection, I wouldn't have got so much detail back. Perhaps it might be a sale contingent on requested rewrites. So I flipped back to the front and discovered they'd bought it outright (admittedly, requesting changes)! A sale, to a major SF magazine! (And not one of the small press magazines I made my two extant sales to.)
Then I woke up.
Boy, was I disappointed.
(And IRL, the submissions referred to above have been completely theoretical for probably over a year now (though still on my to-do list).)
