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[scribblemyname]

As promised, I will tell you what happened to my poetry submission: It was rejected. Ah, well. :shrugs: I'm starting to get okay with that. I'm really wanting to publish my own collections, and well... That means keeping a hold of my own work.

I am aware of the visibility that short fiction and poetry credits bring, however, as I've found most of my own favorites that way; but we shall have to see what happens, and I'll keep working.

Speaking of which, updates on the writing front: I'm a writer of many distractions. My stories arrive five at a time—often before the last batch is completed—and I'm continually interrupted by poems. Nevertheless, I have ben actively writing on "Everything is Blood" for lithiumlaughter, which has been like pulling teeth eking out a few words here and there; the Kingdoms and Thorn collection, which will probably be simply called Kingdoms & Thorn; and various snippets as they come; besides poetry in the evenings.

There are several completed 365 Challenge pieces that I haven't taken the time to post yet:

• "Godling Wild" — Vardin ficlet
• "A Pairing of Convenience" — X-Men Movieverse fanfic
• "When the Coffee Doesn't Work, Drink More Tea" — poem
• "Snow Day" — Kingdoms & Thorn short fiction
• "Five Reasons I Love You" — Kingdoms & Thorn poem (yes, the infamous one I almost lost; 86 lines at that)
• "Acceptable Cost" — Kingdoms & Thorn short fiction

It seems that blogging and hectic writing do not always get along. Sorry?

What have you been writing lately?

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[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

Yes.

I was going to say, "What revelations? There's no revelations in there," but I guess there is. If you wait for a print version, though, you might end up waiting a decade or more. I'm just not that organized.

[scribblemyname]

I'm not waiting. I'm just having a hard time reading it. Some stories I do amazingly good at online; others I need in print to stay with them.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Oh. I didn't realize it was that confusing.

I suppose I could send the current ebook version of it and the next two if that would help. Mind you, the art is temporary for most of them, and there's probably issues all over the place, but if that would be better...

[scribblemyname]

It probably would. It's not that it's confusing. It's that the details span too many segments in sufficiently nonlinear order for me to hold them in my head in serialized format. Most serials have a section I stall out on for a while until I'm ready to do a power-through that gets me through it. I hit it with almost all of them, even some of my favorite books ever, so don't think there's anything wrong with the book. It's just not the perfect serial like some, perhaps most, of your stories are. It bears serialization. There's a difference, and I'm the only person I've met that complains of that problem.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one does do more of my flashbacking and skipping and even a bit of backtracking time wise at one point, and while I try to keep the flashbacks relevant to what is going on in the main plot, it can be hard to keep the timeline straight. It's just these characters have so much history together before the story even starts, and that can be hard to balance.

I just looked at my dates on the "latest" versions of the ebooks, June 1 & 7 for the first two, and yesterday for the one, lol, but I know I've read through the first two and made some edit notes that I didn't put in yet so I will fix those first before I send anything.