Rejections, Stats, Readings

Rejection x2.

One of them was a quarter-final notice from WotF. I don't know why, but it bummed me out especially bad. Usually rejection just rolls off me and I send the story right back out. The story I had entered had come very close to selling at three different pro-markets (according to the editors, not rejectomancy), and I'm convinced this is the best story I've ever written. To have it place in the quarter-final, which is a step backward from the last two times I was in the contest and finished as a semi-finalist, was - disheartening.

For the record: I have been a quarter-finialist 6 times and a semi-finalist twice in the WotF contest.

March Stats
Submissions Made: 10
Sales: 2
Rejections: 10
Other: 0
Publications: 0
Crits Given: 2
Approx Word Count: 9457
Stories Circulating: 15

I can live with everything on this stat list except the word count, which was about half of what I would like my monthly word count to be.

I still need to decide what to read at Minicon, both for my 30 minute reading slot and for the 10 minutes or so I'll have at the TCSFWN group reading.

Rejections, Stats, Readings

Rejection x2.

One of them was a quarter-final notice from WotF. I don't know why, but it bummed me out especially bad. Usually rejection just rolls off me and I send the story right back out. The story I had entered had come very close to selling at three different pro-markets (according to the editors, not rejectomancy), and I'm convinced this is the best story I've ever written. To have it place in the quarter-final, which is a step backward from the last two times I was in the contest and finished as a semi-finalist, was - disheartening.

For the record: I have been a quarter-finialist 6 times and a semi-finalist twice in the WotF contest.

March Stats
Submissions Made: 10
Sales: 2
Rejections: 10
Other: 0
Publications: 0
Crits Given: 2
Approx Word Count: 9457
Stories Circulating: 15

I can live with everything on this stat list except the word count, which was about half of what I would like my monthly word count to be.

I still need to decide what to read at Minicon, both for my 30 minute reading slot and for the 10 minutes or so I'll have at the TCSFWN group reading.