For my birthday, I got a rejection notice on my Carnival story. All things considered though, that's a good thing. My rejections have improved from form letter to editor's note (correct this part) to personal rejection (Excellent story, not for us). Maybe that's a little sad that I rate my rejections like that, but I'll take signs of improvement that I'm offered.
At this point, both of my short stories are out there waiting to come back to me, and the third short I'm re-writing before I send it back out. I've come a long way from my first attempts, I think, and I continue to improve, but I don't feel that I'm good enough yet. Except the Carnival story. That one is good enough, I can feel it in the hairs on the back of my neck.
For the moment my original world, and my original hero, has been set aside for something that feels like it may be a long form of Carnival. That doesn't make sense, I'll try again. The feeling that tells me that Carnival, of what I've done so far, is the best and is ready... that feeling exists for this new, longer story. Having written out all the short stories that were blocking my way to this bigger story, I'm ready to get back to it, finally.
At this point, both of my short stories are out there waiting to come back to me, and the third short I'm re-writing before I send it back out. I've come a long way from my first attempts, I think, and I continue to improve, but I don't feel that I'm good enough yet. Except the Carnival story. That one is good enough, I can feel it in the hairs on the back of my neck.
For the moment my original world, and my original hero, has been set aside for something that feels like it may be a long form of Carnival. That doesn't make sense, I'll try again. The feeling that tells me that Carnival, of what I've done so far, is the best and is ready... that feeling exists for this new, longer story. Having written out all the short stories that were blocking my way to this bigger story, I'm ready to get back to it, finally.
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