3 things...
Aug. 30th, 2006 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesThey say they always come in threes.
1. Rejection letter from Abyss & Apex, although they do say that "we look forward to reading more of your work" but I bet that's just their standard wording. *resubmits elsewhere with a stubborn face *
2. Rejection letter from another agent. *keeps trying *
3. My car failed its MOT. argh!! Bad timing as I don't get paid until tomorrow. (stresses)
I joined a historical fiction writer's critique group yesterday, it's very small, only about 30 members, but it works in the same way that SFFW's does, you have to critique 3 before you can offer up a piece for critique and you must crit 3 a month and you must offer one of your own a month. It will be good discipline and good bread on the waters too. I don't read half enough of other people's stuff, and hopefully if I can see the errors in other people's writing, I will see more of my own.
However, it has to be said, that I nearly DIDN'T get into the group, as the owner was concerned that my writing about homosexuals would upset the existing members. However I wrote an impassioned "has not a homosexual history? If you read us, do we not pop up everywhere - doth not a homosexual deserve to be read?" speech, which went down rather well, and I got in. I'm wasted, really. *G * I shall let you know if the other members pack up their bags and leave as the neighbourhood goes down now the queers have moved in next door.
1. Rejection letter from Abyss & Apex, although they do say that "we look forward to reading more of your work" but I bet that's just their standard wording. *resubmits elsewhere with a stubborn face *
2. Rejection letter from another agent. *keeps trying *
3. My car failed its MOT. argh!! Bad timing as I don't get paid until tomorrow. (stresses)
I joined a historical fiction writer's critique group yesterday, it's very small, only about 30 members, but it works in the same way that SFFW's does, you have to critique 3 before you can offer up a piece for critique and you must crit 3 a month and you must offer one of your own a month. It will be good discipline and good bread on the waters too. I don't read half enough of other people's stuff, and hopefully if I can see the errors in other people's writing, I will see more of my own.
However, it has to be said, that I nearly DIDN'T get into the group, as the owner was concerned that my writing about homosexuals would upset the existing members. However I wrote an impassioned "has not a homosexual history? If you read us, do we not pop up everywhere - doth not a homosexual deserve to be read?" speech, which went down rather well, and I got in. I'm wasted, really. *G * I shall let you know if the other members pack up their bags and leave as the neighbourhood goes down now the queers have moved in next door.
