Slowing the submissions pace

As much as one wishes for imagination to rule the writing of fiction, reality must at times take over. I've had a good run in the weekly Write 1 Sub 1 experiment (see post below), but now it's over for the year. With the new teaching semester imminent, it's time to switch to the more humble goal of one short story submission per month. And so, my new badge: 

Curious to report: Sending out at least a story per week has significantly decreased my rate of acceptances. On the other hand, I've been much more courageous in the kinds of things I'll try to write, so that's very positive, and would explain a lot of the rejections. 


I'll have to mull over exactly what I've learned over the past few months as I decide whether to increase my sub pace again next summer. Until then, we re-balance, as all healthy creatures must.


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Freedom Is Scary

School's out for summer, if I may quote Alice Cooper (and why not?). I graded all the exams and have wiped the chalk dust from my hands.

And now I'm free to write. How thrilling! How terrifying! No excuses, nothing in my way. Hope I can be a grown-up about this, rather than a kid in a candy story, munching everything in sight and making myself sick. The writerly equivalent would be writing a little bit of lots of things and finishing nothing. Or worse, thinking about writing lots of things and not actually doing it because I'm overwhelmed.

Trying to make goals, reasonable goals, for each day and each week. At the very least my adult SF novel will get finished, since I'm drafting chapter 18 now. The trick is to decide what other projects to work on.

Pretty nice problem to have, eh?