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So sorry for your loss, J'nae. All I can tell you is that I'm barely eeking out an occasional word count still, since my mom's death last year. I have moments when writing is almost like it used to be, more and more, so I think the answer may be that it's different for everyone, but the writing will...

Thanks, Dustin. My trajectory seems to follow the feast or famine model. When something hits it's worth the wait, though.

I only had one, but it feels like more all by itself.

"Mom in the Moon" -- Analog October 2016

I'm so glad to see this. I've been trying to remember the Zombies Need Brains calls, and couldn't find the earlier reference to it. So thanks for accidentally helping me out, Ishmael! I think I've got something that fits Submerged. Possibly all three, though I'm not clear on Death. The personificati...

Big congrats to all walking around with the dreamy-success-grin, since I last looked in here. Love seeing so much happy news going on!

Congrats to so many on all the wonderful news. Sorry for yet another blanket congrats, though it's impressive that there's so much awesome here that I perpetually fall behind. You guys continue to inspire me.

50 at once? I think my head just exploded a little! That's awesome. I think 18 is my all time high.

Congrats all around, guys. Lots of exciting news here, since I got sick and fell off the map for a while.

Thanks for sharing your story with us. The only thing it changes is that you've upped both your admiration and cool factors.

Congrats, Emily! Flash is hard. Micro is harder.

Congrats, Ishmael. No hesitating needed and no butting in possible. This thread is just what it says. A place to share and discuss OUR successes. Every success is as important as the one that came before and the one that came after, regardless of where it landed. We're all in this climb together, an...

Wow! Thanks guys. We need a blushing smiley.

And, George, that would be extremely awesome. Trying really hard not to count any chickens before they've even been published. Not very successfully. Playing what if is awfully fun.

Thanks, Preston. Those two smilies are pretty much what the inside of my brain looks like.

I'm beyond happy to announce that I've sold my story "Mom in the Moon" to Analog! It's been the genre market I've most hoped to sell to, for a long time. Dreams, fueled by preternatural tenacity in my case, really do come true.

Condolences, Ishmael. My time for the Campbell Awards potential is long past. If I'm remembering correctly, Strange New Worlds didn't make much of a blip on that particular radar. Great attitude about reviews. They can be...interesting. My most memorable not in a good way to date was a reader's opin...

The wait is getting long enough that I'm reduced to just imagining some happy campers sitting on good news, waiting for the announcement.

I'm not sure this will help, but I don't think it could hurt either. I've found a few things that can really tie me up in knots, as a writer. One is over thinking. Take it from the queen of over thinking that it can be like spinning your mental wheels, and just dig you in deeper. Another is trying t...

I've been wracking my brain for funny so I could give this a shot. Not a thing occurs. I just cannot write humor on demand. It comes organically as I write "regular" fiction quite a bit, but if I try to force it all I get is a blank mind and a blanker page.

So much cool stuff happening here while my back was turned. Congrats all around. And, Matt, be sure to put the Zeppelin warfare on YouTube!

I'm in. First time I've tried micro. I was wary of how tight it would have to be, but it was actually fun. All those tweets paying off....

Thanks to Matt, for very good advice some time ago. I was trying to figure out how to approach a top editor who suddenly went informal in a personal, then back to formal next time. I followed Matt's suggestion to stick with informal on my end, assuming it was a matter of expediency on their part on ...

Thanks guys. Alice, I must be some kind of fluke or throwback or something. I've actually found myself in varying levels of personal correspondence with a number of levels of editors at top magazines of different genres. Not to the level of Tiptree's friendships, though. Sometimes ongoing, sometimes...

This seems to fit somewhere between the Mixed Feelings and Five Minute Rant threads, so I'm putting it here as closest. I get personal rejections that seem very encouraging to the point of almosts, then they go back to barely personal (brief reason why) next time. I recently had a very nice personal...

I hear you. I've been entering well regarded screenwriting competitions with feature length scripts for quite some time, originally because it's supposed to be a rare way in and over time also because it's fun (and addictive!). I started racking up Finalists, Semis, QFs, top percentages...and then a...

My sigh of a rant was actually about their new (to me, anyway) novella program that considers novellas and even up to the short end of novel length at about 40k. If you have stuff that long, it seems worth an attempt when they open submission windows for unagented authors. Tor.com's short fiction do...

A couple of series I've really been enjoying are Falling Skies and Extant. Both from Spielberg, they play out like serialized movies, with very high quality...everything. The cast, acting, storylines, and FX in particular keep me riveted almost constantly, which is not easy in our current world of T...

I simply cannot train myself to succeed in the fine art of not hoping. My submission to the Tor.com Novella Program kept substantially outstaying the estimated response time they kept changing. Telling myself not to hope, I hoped anyway. Form rejection today. Sigh. (technically, a sigh is not much o...

Oh, yeah. I like Asimov's Robots too. Heinlein's stuff, as well. I've always enjoyed the older stories that instill such a sense of awe and wonder, and make me think sort of quietly. I think I tend to write more old school style, though of course with modern scientific ideas. Which may account for a...

Congrats everyone! I'm having such internet trouble that I'm not online as much as I want currently. I'm trying to fit a lot in at the moment, hoping my data won't be decimated when I'm finished.
Good to see so much good stuff going on when I zip on and off occasionally.

Oh, that is just heartbreaking. Horrible setbacks happen to a lot of people, but sometimes it seems some individuals get more than their fair share.