The anthology with my story "The Last Minute" hit bookstores at the end of November. Which: Yay.
Less than a month later, a woman editing another anthology for the same publisher e-mailed me and asked me if I had something I could submit to her anthology. Which, again: Yay.
What made it even nicer was that the submission period for the anthology was Aug 15 through Dec 31, and she sent me the solicitation on Dec 26, which I think means she must have really liked my story.
(She said that many of the contributors had already asked for and gotten extensions to Jan 20, and that I could have the same extension.)
So I finally came up with an idea last Friday. And all was going well. I finished the first draft last night at about 6800 words, and got some feedback from my partner and a friend of ours. And then sent it to myself as an e-mail attachment so that I could fiddle with it here at work during lunch.
And I saw the e-mail go out. I saw the little progress bar slide blue across the bottom of Eudora, and all was well. But the mail never got here! And I have all these ideas of what to do, and I can't do any of them until I get home.
This is why it took me so long to get started writing, too. I'm not an outline person. I start at the beginning and write until the story resolves itself. And I hate being interrupted. It makes it really hard to concentrate on other things.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
If it were me in your situation, I'd take off work right now and go home and write. A lot of times, with me, if I wait to write something it doesn't come out right. Your experience, of course, may be completely different. Or you may not work in a job where it's possible to just run off at the drop of a hat.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
I wish I could afford to. But I missed so much work because of the elevator accident last year. If I had a friend with a key, I'd have them go in and send the file again.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :