The Long Weekend Begins

[sinanju]

And I'm still on track to finish this novel by the end of the month. Just under 6,000 words to go. Today I feel like the novel just doesn't have what it takes to be a worthwhile read. But then I remind myself that I thought the first one was utterly worthless when I finished it; in fact, I filed it away for a couple of months intending never to unearth it again. Eventually my lovely and talented wife convinced me to take a look at it and lo, it was a lot better than I remembered it being.

I fully expect this one to go the same way, so I try not to let my day-to-day worries/fears/insecurities about it prevent me from working on it. Sometimes it's tough. But it gets easier with practice.

In other news, yesterday I got a rejection letter on "Drowned" from Alfred Hitchcock. So I promptly sent it off to their sister magazine, Ellery Queen. And if it doesn't sell there, I'll send it somewhere else again. Never give up, never surrender!

In other other news, my plans for this long weekend include yard work. The grass really needs cutting. But listening to the steady fall of rain outside tonight, which follows a couple of weeks of frequent rain...I'm not sure it'll happen. The forecast called for sunny weather this weekend, but the weather man's been known to get it wrong occasionally. I guess we'll see.

Stories in Circulation: 11
Rejections: 40
Stories Accepted: SEVEN
Stories to Resubmit: 0

Novel Queries: 1 Novel, 4 queries out
Novel Rejections: 6

Project 1: Starship Repo Man (Tentative Title: Nine Tenths of the Law)
Words Written: 94,253