Interesting story: I did very little work last week (not to be confused with
this week), because of family activities. I received three rejections that week, though, so I sort of was working while not doing much.
Goal 1. Adult Short Stories, Essays, and Humor
- Week of July 21 Received two rejections, one for a short story and one for a short humor piece.
- Week of July 28 Resubmitted the humor piece and submitted another short story.
- The site I submitted the humor piece to uses an "Automated Inspector" for initial, pre-acceptance editing. Not easy to deal with and somehow the humor piece was dropped from consideration, and I had to resubmit it and get more comments from the AI. A learning curve that may help me in the future, or may be a waste of time.
- Week of July 28 Worked on one humor piece and started another.
Goal 2. Submit 143 Canterbury Road to Agents (has turned into submitting any book length work to anyone)
- Week of July 21 Received rejection on Good Women
- Week of July 21 Took part in a new Xitter pitch event #smallpitch, pitches to small presses. Made 3 pitches for 2 books, for 6 pitches, overall. Which I count as 6 submissions and rejections. Got some interest from other writers, though, which was gratifying.
Goal 3. Community Building/Marketing/Branding
- Week of July 28 Tried to do an Annotated Reading post, but did a little work on the new humor piece in the morning and went hiking in the afternoon.
But did you get the pants hemmed? ; ) Do you get actual paper rejection slips? I had a stack back in the day, and always threatened to decoupage them onto a coffee table or something. I'm sorry they arrived. Your work deserves better. At least you had some family activities to keep your mind off it. Hope next week is better!
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