Author: Don

Tweets for Today

  • 07:41 Can’t remember the last time I was so grateful for a Saturday morning. ♫ blip.fm/~ci1r #
  • 14:18 Am I…am I actually done editing the latest MS?? #
  • 16:16 Did some more edits, to clean the thing up a little more. Down to 3100 words. Looks ready to submit, to me! #
  • 16:17 Now for some food and a STAR TREK 2.0 rerun on TV. I deserve, don’t you think? #
  • 17:06 zomg! DOCTOR WHO Series 4 screenplays!! www.thewriterstale.com/scr.html #
  • 18:14 MS is done (as much as it’s gonna get) and submitted! Knock on wood… #
  • 21:16 WTF? I rented BATMAN:GOTHAM KNIGHT last week and tonight they show it on the fucking Cartoon Network! Bad timing. Story of my life. #

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Tweets for Today

  • 07:23 Needs a little bit o’ _____ to relax my mind. ♫ blip.fm/~c5v5 #
  • 11:16 Saw his life flash before his eyes on the bus this morning–twice!! #
  • 11:26 Revised new MS this morning. It’s only 3500 words, so I just have to worry about it not sucking. #
  • 14:52 Every cell in my body screams for caffeine! #
  • 15:15 Trying to edit the MS on the d/l at work, but I just don’t have the headspace. #
  • 16:11 It can only get easier from here… ♫ blip.fm/~cc6f #

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Tweets for Today

  • 06:39 Work+class+midterm=13-hour day today. ♫ blip.fm/~bsom #
  • 09:21 I’m either adequately prepared, or I’ve massively underestimated how hard this midterm’s gonna be ;). #
  • 12:08 Needlessly fell off the red-eye wagon this morning. #
  • 12:15 After this mid-term, I gotta do something about these numbers: tinyurl.com/3wwbzp #
  • 15:17 Doesn’t look like I’ll be able to sneak in any last-minute studying at work :(. #
  • 16:56 Didn’t plan my dinner options very well… #
  • 22:32 Figuring I did fair to middlin’ on the midterm. #
  • 22:37 Got a book and other cool swag in the mail today from Small Beer Press, www.lcrw.net/ #

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September Scorecard

Bet you thought you’d never see these again, huh? Neither did I, for awhile. But last month, I started a slow turnaround. Hopefully these numbers–well, the acceptance and publication numbers–go up.

Rejections:
Submissions:
Acceptances:
Publications:
Circulating:
1
2
0
0
2*

*I reset the count on these, because a couple of the markets I submitted stories to ages ago either never responded or have apparently folded.

Tweets for Today

  • 07:12 Not feeling 100%, but probably not bad enough to stay home. #
  • 10:27 Finished the last re-read. Will print the MS and send it out tonight! And now I’m spent. Will probably take a 1/2 day off today. #
  • 12:45 Time to go home, I think. ♫ blip.fm/~avu7 #
  • 14:17 At home, now. Body wants to rest. The mind doesn’t. ♫ blip.fm/~ax0m #
  • 15:33 Will email the story out after a long, long nap. #

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Tweets for Today

  • 07:54 The AlphaSmart is ready for the final, FINAL edits on this latest beast. Then I stuff it into a basket and float it down the Nile… #
  • 08:14 Too wet for the Farmer’s Market. Breakfast at the Diner!! #
  • 09:47 Where the hell is my BookTV???? #
  • 12:58 Definitely fighting a bug. Energy level is a fucking yo-yo. Guess I’ll just dissect more Bobbie Ann Mason stories ’til I feel better. #
  • 13:35 Trying to stay as chill as possible. ♫ blip.fm/~adn2 #
  • 18:04 DONE! Done, done, fucking done! And now–on to editing the next MS. #

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Light Reading (Not!)

I know it looks like I read a fair amount this week. I really didn’t, seeing as the last bunch of stories were flash. So, here’s the roundup.

The first two are from the collection Report to the Men’s Club (from the local library, but I just ordered my own copy).

“Grandma” by Carol Emshwiller. A nice tale that took its time getting to the SF/F element, but was well worth the wait. Not your standard plotted story; it seemed more like a series of vignettes and flashbacks skillfully arranged into a narrative. 5 out of 5.

“The Paganini of Jacob’s Gully” by Carol Emshwiller. You just need to read this! Just do it! It is without a doubt the absolute fucking best lit/genre-blended love story I have ever read! 5 out of 5!

“The Rookers” by Bobbie Ann Mason. Another piece from Shiloh and Other Stories. I’ve took my time reading this one, remembering how well-crafted I remembered the story “Shiloh” was. “The Rookers” didn’t disappoint. Her character and setting descriptions are proof positive that “minimalism” doesn’t mean “2,000 words or less.” While the ending wasn’t as shocking as the one in “Shiloh,” it made me think just as hard. 5 out of 5!

I don’t know why I waited so long to get a copy of The Girl on the Fridge. That was just dumb. Before I knew it, I read these stories in one sitting during my lunch break one day…

“Asthma Attack” by Etgar Keret. Not a story, but it’s the piece that sets a metaphorical rationale for the economic for the economy of word use in rest of the book. Very, very nice. 5 out of 5.

“Crazy Glue” by Etgar Keret. Another valuable lesson for me that fantasy doesn’t have to mean magic and such. 5 out of 5.

“Loquat” by Etgar Keret. Another story involving a grandmother, this is simultaneously a piece on the socio-political complexities of Israeli daily life and on the lengths anyone, anywhere might go to for family. 5 out of 5.

“Hat Trick” by Etgar Keret. Definitely loved the “gonzo magical realism” thing this story had going. Wasn’t too big on the non-ending ending, well-written as it was. 4 out of 5.