Still sick
Jun. 10th, 2009 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuDidn't write a damn thing this morning, but put in some time this afternoon and got some writing done. Scratchy throat, sinus pressure, headache...it sucks. Holing up in the bedroom with the humidifier, drinking Throat Coat tea and popping Sudafed and advil help. So I spent the afternoon there, writing on the laptop.
Been researching my zombie western story. There are no native american or western pioneer tales of the walking dead that I can find in my (admittedly cursory) searches. Which doesn't mean it won't work, but it does mean I need to figure out how the situation came to be. Always assuming, of course, that in the course of researching and plotting this tale I don't change it entirely.
This is purely speculation, mind you, but I'm feeling hopeful about one of the stories I have out. The editor who rejected a story with a personal note mentioned in the note that she had another story of mine on her desk but hadn't looked at it yet, but would let me know about it when she got a chance to read it. That was three weeks ago and I haven't heard one way or the other.
Perhaps she's simply so busy she hasn't looked at it yet. But I'm hoping that she has and that it made the first cut and is awaiting a closer look. Pure speculation, as I said, but I like to think so. We'll see.
Words Written Today: 2,196
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 48,768
Streak (500+ words/day): 2 Days (My current record: 26 days)
Stories in Circulation: 7
Rejections: 3
Stories Accepted: 0
Been researching my zombie western story. There are no native american or western pioneer tales of the walking dead that I can find in my (admittedly cursory) searches. Which doesn't mean it won't work, but it does mean I need to figure out how the situation came to be. Always assuming, of course, that in the course of researching and plotting this tale I don't change it entirely.
This is purely speculation, mind you, but I'm feeling hopeful about one of the stories I have out. The editor who rejected a story with a personal note mentioned in the note that she had another story of mine on her desk but hadn't looked at it yet, but would let me know about it when she got a chance to read it. That was three weeks ago and I haven't heard one way or the other.
Perhaps she's simply so busy she hasn't looked at it yet. But I'm hoping that she has and that it made the first cut and is awaiting a closer look. Pure speculation, as I said, but I like to think so. We'll see.
Words Written Today: 2,196
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 48,768
Streak (500+ words/day): 2 Days (My current record: 26 days)
Stories in Circulation: 7
Rejections: 3
Stories Accepted: 0
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Date: 2009-06-11 11:07 am (UTC)In the vein of your western horror zombie story, have you heard about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I only mention it because parody and usage of original work in a different way aside, it managed to make zombies fit in Victorian England.
(Of course that does raise the arguments about whether or not most of the people of that time weren't inherently behaving like zombies anyway . . .)
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Date: 2009-06-11 04:01 pm (UTC)Yes, I've heard of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Have you heard of Terminators of Endearment? (It's Pride and Prejudice with Terminators--a bit of amusing fanfic with, well, I think you can figure it out. It's just a few scenes, not a whole novel like the other...but entertaining.)