Back in the Saddle!
Aug. 10th, 2009 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuFriday was a miserable day on the writing front. A rejection letter from Alfred Hitchcock's didn't help on top of having trouble trying to plot out a story. On the other hand, I got a couple of encouraging comments/emails about that, so that was nice. Still, the plotting & planning didn't go well.
I didn't do a damn thing with regard to writing over the weekend. Instead, I spent a lot of time with my lovely and talented wife. I picked her up early from work on Friday to drive her to an appointment. Afterward we went out dinner at local German restaurant. We ate, we read, we talked. We were serenaded by a man on an accordion who played such traditional German folk music as "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window" and the themes from "Spongebob Squarepants" and the 60s "Batman" series. It was entertaining and oddly surreal.
Saturday we went to lunch at Popeyes, then cruised through IKEA and bought some stuff for the house, came home and puttered around for hours, watched television and generally were homebodies. Sunday we went out to a matinee of "Julie & Julia," which was a nice film. Came home, frolicked together, went out again to get a (very) late lunch at the bakery, then hung out at home for a while. I worked on laundry, she did some sewing. I uncrated a new portable air conditioner we'd bought via Amazon, discovered that it did not in fact possess the "evaporative technology" it was supposed to have* and put it back into it's box--we'll be sending it back for a refund. We watched True Blood on HBO and then adjourned to frolic together a little more.
It was a good weekend.
I got another rejection today, this one via email from Apex. They said my story was insufficiently science fiction-y for their purposes, which I admit is probably true. The SF element is marginal at best. However, having recharged my morale over the weekend with a very enjoyable couple of days with my lovely and talented wife, I am undeterred by this one. I've already resubmitted both rejected stories this morning, and I'll be doing some considerable writing today. I'll work on the plotting a little more today, but I'll be concentrating more on getting back to the "seat of my pants" writing that has worked so far.
Words Written Today: None Yet (it's early yet)
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 107,981
Stories in Circulation: 9
Rejections: 9
Stories Accepted: ONE!
*We have one portable AC already with a removable tank for the condensed water. It has to be emptied periodically--at least once daily, more often if its particularly humid (by Portland standards, anyhow). The new one was supposed to not need emptying--and it doesn't...assuming you attach the included hose to the drain and run it to a drain in the floor! Which might work in a basement, I suppose.
But we don't HAVE a drain in the floor of our bedroom. Which means we'd have to empty the non-removable tank manually--by letting it drain into a container we'd have to place under the tank outlet. That's worse than the fairly convenient remove-to-drain tank in the current AC. So it's going back.
I didn't do a damn thing with regard to writing over the weekend. Instead, I spent a lot of time with my lovely and talented wife. I picked her up early from work on Friday to drive her to an appointment. Afterward we went out dinner at local German restaurant. We ate, we read, we talked. We were serenaded by a man on an accordion who played such traditional German folk music as "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window" and the themes from "Spongebob Squarepants" and the 60s "Batman" series. It was entertaining and oddly surreal.
Saturday we went to lunch at Popeyes, then cruised through IKEA and bought some stuff for the house, came home and puttered around for hours, watched television and generally were homebodies. Sunday we went out to a matinee of "Julie & Julia," which was a nice film. Came home, frolicked together, went out again to get a (very) late lunch at the bakery, then hung out at home for a while. I worked on laundry, she did some sewing. I uncrated a new portable air conditioner we'd bought via Amazon, discovered that it did not in fact possess the "evaporative technology" it was supposed to have* and put it back into it's box--we'll be sending it back for a refund. We watched True Blood on HBO and then adjourned to frolic together a little more.
It was a good weekend.
I got another rejection today, this one via email from Apex. They said my story was insufficiently science fiction-y for their purposes, which I admit is probably true. The SF element is marginal at best. However, having recharged my morale over the weekend with a very enjoyable couple of days with my lovely and talented wife, I am undeterred by this one. I've already resubmitted both rejected stories this morning, and I'll be doing some considerable writing today. I'll work on the plotting a little more today, but I'll be concentrating more on getting back to the "seat of my pants" writing that has worked so far.
Words Written Today: None Yet (it's early yet)
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 107,981
Stories in Circulation: 9
Rejections: 9
Stories Accepted: ONE!
*We have one portable AC already with a removable tank for the condensed water. It has to be emptied periodically--at least once daily, more often if its particularly humid (by Portland standards, anyhow). The new one was supposed to not need emptying--and it doesn't...assuming you attach the included hose to the drain and run it to a drain in the floor! Which might work in a basement, I suppose.
But we don't HAVE a drain in the floor of our bedroom. Which means we'd have to empty the non-removable tank manually--by letting it drain into a container we'd have to place under the tank outlet. That's worse than the fairly convenient remove-to-drain tank in the current AC. So it's going back.
