New Sale!
I’m excited about selling a science-fiction story to Aoife’s Kiss. This is the first story I’ve sold that wasn’t fantasy, and it’s nice to have a sense of validation for writing in a different genre. The story is titled “fc01a9” and will be published in September, 2009. This was not the latest science-fiction story I finished; in fact, the two are completely unrelated.
Pretty Rough
I finished a rough draft of the time travel story. It is the very definition of rough. Some of the dialog is repetitive, I left dates as XX because I haven’t decided on them yet, and I a few of the details are sketchy. Still, it’s progress. One draft is complete.
The other science-fiction story is already touring the desks of magazine editors (or wherever slush is collected). That raises my current number of “active” stories to five.
Continuing the Rewrite
I’m working on a new scene with the rewrite. Once I’m finished with it, I need to go over the entire piece again to smooth out all of the recent changes. I’m enjoying the work, but this has got to be the most arduous writing I’ve done for a short story. I hope it pays off.