Getting Back into the Swing of Things

Or trying to, anyway.

Today I subbed out two things. The first was a fiction piece under my pen name. I'm not really expecting anything to come out of it, unfortunately. It's a 100-word "drabble". They're kind of hard to place and even harder to write. I'd like to think I wrote a complete story in 100 words, but maybe it's just a scene. We'll see what the editor thinks, anyway.

I think I mentioned here that I got another rejection on a parenting essay I wrote a few weeks ago. The editor had good things to say about it, but decided to pass. So after letting it set for awhile, I rewrote parts of it and I think it flows a lot better. Of course, I thought that the last five revisions of the essay.... I think this is it, though. The Last Revision. At some point you just have to spot tinkering with essays and I think I'm at it with "Blow and Gene".

So I subbed it out today to an anthology.... which I'm also not expecting anything out of, either. But if it gets rejected there, I have a few more spots where I think it might fit. Gotta keep trying.

The real problem comes when you can't find a spot to "fit" something. I have one more story that could go out, I just don't know where it should go out to. I've been trying to place it for about three years now and while I've gotten quite a few positive responses on it, I just cannot sell the darn thing. I think it's just waiting for it's ship to come in. :-)

I guess it's on to Duotrope to find a spot for my unpublishable story. I love that website. If you're a writer and don't know what it is, check it out - you'll fall in love, too, I'm sure.