I submitted another story to Daily Science Fiction and got another letter saying "Hooray, your story does not completely suck!" Paraphrased of course. Hopefully this time I will get a letter saying they will print it, unlike the last times. It is still good news, I am not writing worse stories, but I'll see if they are improving in a month.
Last time I sent them anything, they eventually said it was "too similar" to other stories they had been printing in theme and what not. This time, this time I wrote something far different. Also it's shorter. DSF loves short stories. Hopefully they will love mine too.
I originally wrote it a while ago, but have been taken some time to tighten it up and fix a lot of silly parts. How many silly parts can a 500 word story have? you ask? A surprisingly large amount actually. We'll see what the judges say.
Progress on the Rain (why I keep calling it that when it is not the actual title I do not know. habit I guess.) re-work is going swimmingly. There was a slight hiccup in that I was not sure how I wanted a scene to play out. It was kind of important to, as I had to figure out if I wanted someone to live or not. As this person was one of the central players, either choice would drastically change it. I solved that problem by taking the third option. What a twist.
In other news- A Memory of Light is out today, and very soon it will be in my hands. Sadly though, I have to go to work between now and then. Sigh...
In other, other news-I should have a story in this space come Thursday. What it is about you will have to wait and see.
That's all I have to say for today.
-Me
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