dreamer_easy: (WRITING eye)
2009-10-12 07:36 pm

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The Sign is back from Weird Tales. I think I'm going to give it a lookover before I send it out again. Not because I reckon I can sell it by reworking it, but because it's been four months since I messed with the ms. My redraft sense is tingling!

In completely unrelated news, I was just watching some of Dylan Moran's Monster (missus) and it prompted me to wonder aloud: how is it that grumbling smokers never seem to grasp that anti-smoking laws are not for their benefit?
dreamer_easy: (WRITING)
2009-06-15 11:08 am

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The Sign is back from F&SF ("This was in the letterbox," quoth Jon, "is it the legendary Thin Envelope?") and is now in the nighted hands of Weird Tales, and may the gods etc.
dreamer_easy: (WRITING)
2009-06-01 08:26 pm

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The Sign is in the post to Fantasy and Science Fiction and may the gods have mercy.
dreamer_easy: (WRITING)
2009-05-27 07:00 pm

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Have rewritten short story The Sign and hammered out a rough scene for Burning Room. Lessee, what's next in the queue? Write the other nine-tenths of She Sells Sky and then get onto Eating and Explosions. Gosh, I'm so busy! Be nice if I could bleeping SLEEP.
dreamer_easy: (do not fuck with me)
2009-01-08 11:48 pm

Gobsmackery

While I may clash a little with Jewish friends and family about the Middle East, I've just been absolutely stunned to read the online remarks of an editor to whose slushpile I had submitted a story, cheering on the indiscriminate killing of civilians in Gaza and calling for their extermination. Whatever disagreements we may have about Israel's policies, media reporting of the situation, etc, I know none of you would ever stoop to advocating the collective punishment of all Palestinians, regardless of their actual innocence or guilt, including children. I've withdrawn the story; I'll give it a rewrite and look for a new home for it. This won't inconvenience the editor in question, who has plenty of stories to choose from; but I don't wish to work with him.

ETA: In fairness to the editor in question, I misread his posting: he calls for the forcible eviction of all Palestinians in Gaza, not their extermination. (In fairness to me, his spluttering responses confirm I made the right decision in choosing not to work with him.)

ETA ETA: Yikes! Sorry about that, folks - I've banned him now.
dreamer_easy: (WRITING)
2008-12-22 07:22 pm

Moreover

The Sign is away - ended up 2700 words long.

Not quite sure about the new header. Your remarks solicited.
dreamer_easy: (WRITING)
2008-12-13 07:19 pm

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The Sign draft 1 is complete at 2500 words.
dreamer_easy: (WRITING)
2008-12-09 03:38 pm

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1000 words of short story The Sign, which looks like it'll be maybe 2500 words.