Revision Plans

Confession: I think I'm good enough to get published, and I often don't understand why I don't get immediate positive feedback from everything I submit. Then, when I look at the massive gaping flaws in what I submitted later, I wonder that I ever get positive feedback.

Reading:

• Master of the Cauldron, by David Drake
• Realms of Fantasy, June 2008

Revising:

• "Illuminated"

Just a quick post today. My new goal is to revise and submit one story per week until all of my stories are currently submitted. I'm going to keep a file on which stories have been sent to which magazines, and when, so that I'll know when to expect a response, and also know where to submit for maximum coverage.

I'm also going to research one or two new magazines per week, and keep a list of possible magazines for submission, along with their websites and other qualifications. I'm going to put together a "queue," so that when I get a response from one magazine, I can immediately send it off to the next.

However, I don't want these business aspects of writing to interfere with the actual fun part of writing, so I'm going to dedicate only one evening a week to this task. The rest of the time is all about the writing.

What story should I do next? I'm thinking that I should finish up the first Ferian Fetlock... I'd like to have one of those finally completed.