Return (and return and return) of the crazy mutant cold

[anthimeria]

Every weekend.  Since Christmas.  And often on the Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday of the week after.  It's like, here, have a life on Thursday and Friday, but be prepared to be bedridden again by Saturday morning!

So I have not gotten much editing done.  I tackled chapters 4 and 5 last Saturday but am DEFINITELY going to need to go through them again, because I don't dare envision the crazy things I might've written under the influence of OTC cold meds.

. . . also, I went to work anyway, and I might've been the world's Most Annoying Coworker because cold=much blowing of nose, which is both loud and frequent.  I kept wanting to apologize.  M suggested I bake cookies for them once I am well, and I think I shall do so, because they deserve something for putting up with me this week.  Also, it will be my first Adventure in Baking in the new apartment's teeny tiny kitchen.

In short story news, I found a token-paying market for one of my stories that I have exhausted all pro payment markets for (it's a superhero story, it's a tough sell), so it and the two stories I started submitting in 2011 are all out, which is nice.

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[elenagleason.com]

Oh wow. I was feeling sorry for myself for two colds within a month and another one last September. You win. I hope you recover for good very speedily!

Also: ...the two stories I started submitting in 2011... indeed. I felt all proud of myself for writing two pages on a brand new story last night. :P I haven't finished anything since "Family Photo" in, er, July. (But seriously, congrats!)

[anthimeria]

Thanks! Having a few stories out is always a good thing. (Although one story is actiony urban fantasy that's 6k words long, and the other is a fairy tale retelling, so their subgenres might doom them from the outset. Have to try, though!)

2 pages is progress! Progress is good! Also, your third published story just came out, so I'm not sure I'd win if we measured up. ;)

[elenagleason.com]

If you run out of paying markets for the fairy tale retelling, keep Fairy Tale Review in mind. I don't think it pays, and no one in genre really pays attention to it, but it has hoity toity literary cred, which is better than nothing. ;P

Which fairy tale does it retell?

[anthimeria]

The Little Mermaid, actually. I've been wanting to write this story since I took that fairy tales class in junior year, and this fall it finally worked.

[elenagleason.com]

Fun! Hopefully it will get published and I can read it in print! :D