It has been several months since I last submitted a story to a publication. I had four out at various competitions, and last week they announced the winners and I was not among them. So my stories were freed up to be submitted elsewhere. I spent a few hours last week trawling Duotrope for likely venues, and today I submitted all four stories to a variety of different places. My submission tracker didn't know what hit it! The three pieces that are still languishing there, waiting for responses from the respective publications perked up and noticed they had company.
It felt good to do that. Hopeful. I've managed to publish almost a story a month this year, so hope to have an even better success rate next year. Although, I'm not sure how much time I'll have for short fiction with three novels in various stages of completion and revision. I'm going to work my butt off to get at least two of them polished and ready to go after Christmas. Then I'll be able to focus my attentions on polishing (hopefully not finishing) the book I'm now close to 30K into.
And how is that going, you ask? Well, I'm not sure. I haven't been going back to read what I've written because I know if I do, the temptation to start editing will be overwhelming. So I can't say whether it's a spectacular pile of poo, or something with some literary merit. I'm just plowing onward, hoping that at some point I'll crash into my ending... An appropriate analogy, given my book is about a car wreck!
Has anyone else made any submissions recently? Any responses yet?
I was just thinking the same thing the other day - it's been forever since I really submitted, and even longer since I submitted anything new. I have a couple things out there in the ether still. No recent acceptances, though.
ReplyDeleteOnce November is over, I have two novels I'm going to be finishing rewrites on and starting submissions for (which, combined with this year's NaNo technically make a trilogy, but they all stand alone).
Anyway...best of luck with your submissions. And your revisions. And your newest project. :-D
It's weird isn't it? We all spent the first half of the year manically submitting and publishing short fiction, then the second half of the year, after the anthology project was born, we kind of stopped. Must write more short stories...
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