Currently reading The Fall of Hyperion, the award-winning sequel to the award-winning Hyperion. I’ve come across at least a couple “As You Know Bob” moments in the text.
Continuing to chug away at deadlines. Got a couple items off my plate, so I’m feeling pretty good about that. This week will be mostly dedicated to clubbing my stuff before I send it to Mr. Gunn for the workshop.
Now, have some honeydew.
6/14/2010: Submit my three stories for workshopping in Kansas. 85% Sent the three stories around to friends to see if they had suggestions on things to improve. A week later I have gotten word back from one regarding one of the stories. =(
6/30/2010: Wily Writer’s “Song” issue. 5% Brainstorm ed with a friend, but haven’t written a damn word.
6/30/2010: Crossed Genres “Invasion” issue. 100% Sent off to Crossed Genres.
6/30/2010: Crossed Genres “Science in my Fiction” contest. 0% Less certain that I will submit for this. I have an idea for a story, but I might not have time to submit.
6/30/2010: Pill Hill Press’s Flesh & Bones: Rise of the Necromancers anthology. 0% Same as the CG contest, really. =(
6/30/2010: Finish first draft of novel. 80%
7/1/2010: Hallow’s Eve Press Steampunk anthology. 5% Brainstormed some ideas with a friend.
7/4/2010 – 7/18/2010: SF Writer’s Workshop and Campbell Conference
7/13/2010: Blood Bound Books’ Rock & Roll is Dead anthology. 95%.
7/22/2010 – 7/25/2010: PNWA Summer conference.
8/1/2010: Timid Pirate Press’s Cobalt City Timeslip anthology. 100%. Draft sent off to Nate.
9/20/2010: Horror Flash Fiction anthology.
9/24/2010 – 9/26/2010: Foolscap.
10/31/2010: Top Secret Project A
11/1/2010 – 11/30/2010: NaNoWriMo. (I need to do this, if only to shake off the dust and limber up, get back to writing for pleasure than writing for deadlines.)
11/4/2010 – 11/7/2010: Ambercon Northwest.
11/30/2010: Start looking for guidelines for the Norwescon Fairwood Writing Workshop.
11/30/2010: Contact RustyCon about becoming a panelist.
1/14/2011: RustyCon.
7/31/2011: Wicked East Press’s Once Bitten, Never Die anthology.
No Due Date:
– Submit “Thus Have I Heard” to Residential Aliens.
– Submit story to Writers of the Future
Jeremy, just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. I’m Rose, and we’ll be together at the workshop :) Please don’t worry about your friend’s critique. If our stories were perfect, there’d be no need to come to the workshop, right?
Also, readers can have wildly divergent opinions. What’s genius for one is stupid and useless for another. My friends who went to Clarion taught me this phrase: “Take what you need from the crit and move on.” It’s a very good mantra, I found.
Hi there! If you’re referring to the feedback for my workshop pieces, my lament is not the feedback I received, but the lack of it. I’ve gotten more feedback from people since I posted, but when I wrote this post I was just feeling frustrated because I had gotten so little response.
There are a couple things that are nagging at me about the stories, that I figure I should fix before I get to the workshop. But I’ve felt stuck on these fixes and turned to friends for help.
Then I did misunderstand what you meant, sorry :) Good luck with the deadline!
Oh, no worries! I also have my fair share of frustration with feedback I do get. ;)
And thanks!