It's the weekend!
May. 23rd, 2009 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuWhich doesn't mean quite as much when I no longer have an office job to go to during the week.
I wrote some this afternoon, and this evening and may do more, though to be honest probably not. Finished the first pass at "Home Invasion" and currently think it's crap*. But I've come to accept that that's par for the course. Tomorrow I'll clean it up a bit, spell check it, and let my lovely and talented wife take a look at it. Then submit it somewhere to let an honest to god editortell me it's crap that it doesn't suit their current needs.
Trust the process.
*And by "it's crap" I mean that I have doubts about the story as a whole. There are definitely parts I like, scenes or descriptions or bits of dialogue and so forth. But I always wonder if the whole thing works. On the other hand, I got a "close but not quite right" rejection yesterday, so I'm not writing complete crap, no matter how it feels sometimes.
Trust the process
"The Process" as defined by Robert Heinlein.
1. You must write.
2. You must finish what you write.
3. You must not rewrite except to editorial order.
4. You must submit your story to an editor who will pay you.
5. You must keep your story in circulation until it sells.
I am following these rules so far. I must trust that ultimately the process will work for me. I got two rejections yesterday. Today I resubmitted both stories to new markets. Go me! And now, the long awaited scorecard for today:
Words Written Today: 1,095
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 19,722
Streak (500+ words/day): 13 Days
Stories in Circulation: 4 (2 rejected stories resubmitted via email)
Rejections: 3
Stories Accepted: 0
I wrote some this afternoon, and this evening and may do more, though to be honest probably not. Finished the first pass at "Home Invasion" and currently think it's crap*. But I've come to accept that that's par for the course. Tomorrow I'll clean it up a bit, spell check it, and let my lovely and talented wife take a look at it. Then submit it somewhere to let an honest to god editor
Trust the process.
*And by "it's crap" I mean that I have doubts about the story as a whole. There are definitely parts I like, scenes or descriptions or bits of dialogue and so forth. But I always wonder if the whole thing works. On the other hand, I got a "close but not quite right" rejection yesterday, so I'm not writing complete crap, no matter how it feels sometimes.
Trust the process
"The Process" as defined by Robert Heinlein.
1. You must write.
2. You must finish what you write.
3. You must not rewrite except to editorial order.
4. You must submit your story to an editor who will pay you.
5. You must keep your story in circulation until it sells.
I am following these rules so far. I must trust that ultimately the process will work for me. I got two rejections yesterday. Today I resubmitted both stories to new markets. Go me! And now, the long awaited scorecard for today:
Words Written Today: 1,095
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 19,722
Streak (500+ words/day): 13 Days
Stories in Circulation: 4 (2 rejected stories resubmitted via email)
Rejections: 3
Stories Accepted: 0