Another day and a rejection. It wasn’t unexpected, because I haven’t been struggling for the last few months. Normally I would not have sent much out this month, but having set myself targets for submissions, and needing to show some self-discipline, I wrote and submitted anyway. In some ways it was a bad idea, but based on past experience I can’t afford to let the momentum fade.
Believe it or not, there was a time when I used to have all my submissions ready for the beginning of the month. I seemed to have so much time in those days. The theory was that if I submitted first, all the subsequent submissions had to do two things – one is that they had to be good enough for publication, but the second was that they had to be good enough to replace the submissions I’d already submitted. This works if editors look at submissions as they come in, but it doesn’t if they wait until the end of the submission period before looking.
There used to be a lot of blogs and internet articles about the science of submissions at one time. I couldn’t find any tonight. There were a few about how to submit (spelling, manners, timeliness, stick to the submissions guidelines etc) but none of the sort I wanted – the ones that used to treat it as pseudo-science and work out ways of increasing your chances by trickery and mind control.
Pictures are from Julia and my sister – they went round the Shaun the Sheep exhibition in Peterborough yesterday. More about that tomorrow. I now have a home made quiche to eat and a wife to talk to. She hasn’t seen much of me today as I have been messing about on the keyboard and achieving very little.
Ah well, time to go. I will add a few photos and talk about them in the next post.
Oh, that exhibit looks fun, and Julia looks grand. Because I am working my way down posts I get through email, I am reading newer posts first. Therefore, I know you had acceptances along with the rejection.
There’s me trying to build up jeopardy and dramatic foreshadowing . . .
Ah well,. 🙂
Julia looks she is doing well and had a good time out and about with her sister. I would love to see Daleks in a museum! 🙂
Keep writing, Simon!
I will find the pictures for you. 🙂
Trickery and mind control. Hmmm
It’s worth a try. You spell properly, you’re polite, so it’s not a big step on to try hypnotism by remote control.
😉
Julia looks well
She still has the odd bad night but generally her neck has healed and she is taking to life in retirement.
Peterborough looks like a happening place, as they say.
With the Daleks in the Museum and the Gormley Statues in Cathedral Square, there is plenty to see.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g187045-d14809829-i330672573-Cathedral_Square-Peterborough_Cambridgeshire_England.html