Posted by on May 16, 2006 in Uncategorised | 4 Comments

Good Days and Bad Days

A large part of any writer’s life is sending out work and waiting. Sending and waiting. Sending … and waiting.

This week has been an exceptional one. It’s only Tuesday and already I have had two rejections and (wait for it!) four acceptances.

Four!

That’s never happened before. Ruthie’s Club took a piece of erotica written for one of their upcoming themes, Espresso Fiction took two stories; one for May and one for July, and Traveler’s Tales are running an excerpted reprint of a longer essay in their The World is a Kitchen anthology due out in September.

I’ve forgotten who the rejections were from – which is the way it should be. If you can celebrate your acceptances and forget your rejections you can probably develop the kind of skin a writer needs (something like a one-way crocodile carapace: it has to let through all the inspiration available to you in your daily life and none of the misery that goes with rejection).

4 Comments

  1. Kay Sexton
    16th May 2006

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  2. Bunny
    16th May 2006

    Both a test and congratulations! I’m sending this from work but not using my blogger display name. How odd if it works!

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  3. Justin Crouse
    16th May 2006

    that’s wonderful Kay!! it’s the type of week i dream about. sadly, it’s only a dream.

    good for you!!

    Justin

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  4. Tribeless
    17th May 2006

    Well done. Good to see the hard work and talent paying off.

    Kind regards Mark Hubbard

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