Aswiebe's Market List Update 2014-01

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The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 2/15/2014.
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Editor's Note

A career as a writer is full of firsts. This week is the first time I accidentally finished plotting a story that was not, in fact, the story I began plotting. The character was no longer the same. The plot didn't match the thrust of the story idea I'd started with. The superlative story title I'd chosen did not accurately reflect the story at all.

So I set that story aside. I went back to the original story I was trying to plot. I made a point of considering where I'd come from as I tried to decide where I was going. That approach worked a little better, though I still need to figure out a few details. And now I'll have two stories plotted out and ready to go, even if one of them is more quiet and small in scope than the cup full of awesome I thought I was brewing! I could be cranky about accidentally derailing myself (I was a little cranky when I realized it), or I could be happy that I now have !bonus! story.

There are always going to be "firsts" in a writing career. Some of them are wonderful. Some of them will feel like they are unmitigated awfulness at first, but if you look hard enough, you can usually find another viewpoint. After all, that's what writers do, isn't it?

What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:

"Ekaterina and the Firebird" is now up on Tor.com! You can read it at http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/01/ekaterina-and-the-firebird-abra-staffin-wiebe. If you want to have a copy for your very own, a professionally formatted ebook version is also available for purchase:
Kindle | B&N | Google Play | iTunes

In the realm of non-fiction, my article on registering copyright has been published by FundsforWriters at http://www.fundsforwriters.com/december-27-2013/ .

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