A poem to honour reaching forty writing rejections this year. Rejection quotations Thank you for your submission. On this occasion your story hasn't made it. I'm sorry to disappoint you. It’s just a competition. I have read and thought about the poems you sent me, but I'm not keeping them. I'm sorry to report we … Continue reading Rejection quotations
Writing
Little fishie
One busy little writing fishie
Structurally sound
Structure in writing and life
Drag and drop
A writing update
Out of the loop
A little writing update featuring a new kind of rejection
Momentum 21
It seems publishing things have kept up the momentum of 2020. Yes, there have been the expected rejections, but there was a long awaited publication. Also, new things are going on. New as in my first acceptance for 2021! Voila, the 2021 stats: Acceptance: 1Rejections: 9Pending: 15 This new acceptance is a short story that … Continue reading Momentum 21
Fiction fuel
My horror short story Overwritten has now been published in issue 81 of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. The edition is available here for purchase. It's a nice start to the year. Although it's only 14 days into January it feels like it's been a Covid Blurvember long with *waves hands at the world* everything that's gone … Continue reading Fiction fuel
New year, same goal
2021 writing goals
Tallying up
Another writing update.
Stories within circles
As foretold by the publisher some months ago so it has come to pass: another one of my stories has been published this very day. It's the same process each time, and every time different. Write, edit, submit, hope, hope and hope. Wait, wait, and wait before the acceptance that is never inevitable. More like … Continue reading Stories within circles
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