Another Story In Circulation!

[sinanju]

Well, okay, technically it won't be in circulation for another thirteen hours or so. I'll drop by the USPS tomorrow morning to mail it after I drive my lovely and talented wife to work. But it's been written, spellchecked, first readered, corrected, printed and sealed into a mailing envelope with cover letter and SASE. It's as ready as it can be.

I'm pleased that I got it done. I started yesterday by taking one of my previous unfinished openings and continuing it. It was mostly done yesterday. This morning I briefly reconsidered, and wrote a page or so of a different story (same events, different POV and thus a different story). But I reminded myself of Heinlein's second rule (You must finish what you write), and deleted that. Instead I made a few changes to the current story, added a few hundred words, cleaned it up a bit, and finished it. Go me!

Tomorrow, I start on a second story for this week. Last week I failed to get a second story done. I must do better this week. I will do better!

In other news, my first sale (Flying High, under my Gail Roarke pen name) goes on sale this Friday at Cobblestone-press.com. Hurrah!

ETA: Just got a rejection on "Clean Up Detail"--and sent it right back out again to another market. C'es la vie.

Stories in Circulation: 12 <---Yes, a new one today
Rejections: 11 <---Yes, a new one today
Stories Accepted: ONE! (To be released by Cobblestone-Press.com next Friday, September 25th!)

Stories in Circulation currently:
Clean Up Detail (fantasy-flavored crime story)
Hotel Party (erotica)
Man-Ape (science fiction)
Watching Jennifer (erotica)
Home Invasion (mystery/suspense/crime)
Making Friends (erotica)
Surprise Party (erotica)
Bound by Convention (erotica)
Unconventional (erotica)
Queen Bee (erotica)
Ink (urban fantasy)
Drowned (mainstream/young adult)