I got my first semi-personalized rejection letter last night. It didn’t hold the editor’s attention. That sounds bad (and it kinda is) but hey, at least I grabbed his attention at some point. Even if I did lose it. Ah well, lesson learned. I’ll make sure to send more exciting stuff to that market. I took the story and fired it off to Clarkesworld. If they reject it, I’ll send it somewhere else. You gotta give these stories the chance to get rejected by the widest possible audience.
I started my final read-aloud editing pass last night. I got 30 pages done in an hour and a half. At this rate, if I’m lucky, I’ll be done 20 days. Grr. Tonight, I’ll keep a glass of water next to the Throne of Writing(tm). Reading aloud gets dry. I also need to get more done. This does work, though. I find typos and places where sentences should be rephrased (not too many, I'm happy to say). So this method of editing does work. It's just dry and slow work. Oh well, at least I get to practice doing funny voices for my characters. This way I'm also getting practice for doing readings.
On the whole, I’m happy with how the story is going. I’m interested in it, which doesn’t sound like much but when you’ve read this chapter over and over again in the past year, it’s a nice surprise. It feels like it drags a bit in places but I’m not sure if that’s because I’m reading it aloud and therefore going slower than I normally read. Not all books are meant to be read aloud. That might make a good experiment for a book in the future. Hmm.
I started my final read-aloud editing pass last night. I got 30 pages done in an hour and a half. At this rate, if I’m lucky, I’ll be done 20 days. Grr. Tonight, I’ll keep a glass of water next to the Throne of Writing(tm). Reading aloud gets dry. I also need to get more done. This does work, though. I find typos and places where sentences should be rephrased (not too many, I'm happy to say). So this method of editing does work. It's just dry and slow work. Oh well, at least I get to practice doing funny voices for my characters. This way I'm also getting practice for doing readings.
On the whole, I’m happy with how the story is going. I’m interested in it, which doesn’t sound like much but when you’ve read this chapter over and over again in the past year, it’s a nice surprise. It feels like it drags a bit in places but I’m not sure if that’s because I’m reading it aloud and therefore going slower than I normally read. Not all books are meant to be read aloud. That might make a good experiment for a book in the future. Hmm.
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