Well, I lit a fire under my ass. Yesterday was quite productive. After I did my mandatory cleaning of the downstairs, and ran a few errands, I spent most of the day editing and rewriting a story. I'm pretty pleased with it(which means probably no one else will be). I've already subbed it out and if I get a rejection from that place, then I already have two more I will send it to.

Then I started working on editing another story. Don't think I will find a place for that one tho. It's in my first person southern narrator, and not many folks like that sort of thing. It will probably find a home in my collection of southern stories that I'm in the process of putting together. I'm pretty close to done with that, just have some editing to do on several different tales.

Actually, I've kept the fire going all week. I subbed out two more stories to two other places a few days ago. One is for no money, and my longer piece went to a place that pays really well. I mean really well. Course that place takes forever to get back to you and as a matter of fact, I sent them two last Sept and never heard back at all. I'm thinking my stuff just got lost in the mess. That always seems to be my luck. If I get a rejection for the longer one, I have another place I'm going to send it. And if it gets rejected there, I'm going the snailmail route with it. Geez, that takes forever.

That's the thing about submitting. You have to coordinate your work. Check the reading periods and guidelines and then schedule when to send what where. And the magazines who pay the most, always take the longest. Surely they know most of us are starving writers who could use the money yesterday.

At any rate, Netter, Saffy and Lisa made me feel like a slouch. So I picked up the baton and have begun my run. After I do some editing on another author's stories today, so we can get her collection together and start shopping it around, I'll do some more editing and tweeking on my work. I've got tons of things in my slush pile, so surely there's a diamond in the rough in there somewhere.

Here's to writing and submitting and the endless hell it brings. Cheers!