X-posted: 2023's Writing Scorecard
Apr. 3rd, 2023 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrA cross-post from my art journal, purpleponyart, from April 1st:
Well, I fooled myself today because I thought a submission I was working towards closed today, but it turns out it's actually April 8th!
I stayed up too late last night editing my story and was up early to finish it when I double-checked the submission page. At least I have another week to procrastinate?
I hoped to hear by now about three submissions in the hopper--but no news so far. Two are still marked in-progress in their respective submission systems and one could take longer.
However, it's good to always have at least one thing out there for consideration and three is the most amount I've submitted at one time.
The story I'm currently working on was written in May 2012 when we went to California. Suddenly I found myself with lots of quiet time. My Kobo e-reader was loaded up with a lot of books and short story anthologies and just for fun, I wrote some stories around some of the things we did and saw in California. These stories are by no means great and they're a little embarrassing to read now, but they are definitely the fertilizer for future success. The base ideas are not bad, just the execution. Like any skill, you have to practice it badly before you can practice it well.
I plunked the story into Word, let Grammarly spot all the missing commas and hyphens, and started breaking it up into logical sections in Scrivener. However, there was very little in the way of logical sections besides a beginning, middle, and end. After trying my best to reformat the story, I realized it simply must be rewritten while borrowing the basic framework. From the original 1300 words there are now about 5000 and I'm aiming for 6000.
I'm glad the submission deadline wasn't today--I'm so tired of this story--my brain needs a break from it!
purpleponyart, from April 1st:Well, I fooled myself today because I thought a submission I was working towards closed today, but it turns out it's actually April 8th!
I stayed up too late last night editing my story and was up early to finish it when I double-checked the submission page. At least I have another week to procrastinate?
I hoped to hear by now about three submissions in the hopper--but no news so far. Two are still marked in-progress in their respective submission systems and one could take longer.
However, it's good to always have at least one thing out there for consideration and three is the most amount I've submitted at one time.
The story I'm currently working on was written in May 2012 when we went to California. Suddenly I found myself with lots of quiet time. My Kobo e-reader was loaded up with a lot of books and short story anthologies and just for fun, I wrote some stories around some of the things we did and saw in California. These stories are by no means great and they're a little embarrassing to read now, but they are definitely the fertilizer for future success. The base ideas are not bad, just the execution. Like any skill, you have to practice it badly before you can practice it well.
I plunked the story into Word, let Grammarly spot all the missing commas and hyphens, and started breaking it up into logical sections in Scrivener. However, there was very little in the way of logical sections besides a beginning, middle, and end. After trying my best to reformat the story, I realized it simply must be rewritten while borrowing the basic framework. From the original 1300 words there are now about 5000 and I'm aiming for 6000.
I'm glad the submission deadline wasn't today--I'm so tired of this story--my brain needs a break from it!
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Date: 2023-04-09 04:29 pm (UTC)Hehe, it's nice to be at the point where I'm really happy with my work. Now that the 2012 story has gone from trash to treasure, I'm sure it will find a future home online.
Thanks for the congrats too. Arthropoda was my second acceptance. I had some rejections in-between and I always thought I would be a one story wonder (or fluke!).