Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

08/10/2008 - Sunday, no work
* Posted writing log
* penthius freewriting, a really neat magic realism take on Ukrainian Easter eggs.
* Typed up the story idea Phil mused for me and deposited a placeholder in penthius.
* Updated market list from Critters, Ralan newsletter, and notes I've left myself.
* Then the internets were cranky, so instead of my usual Sunday work, I did a few more pages of redmarking Vicesteed.
* Processed "Dining on a Dead Girl's Dime" non-win of Weird Tales spam-inspired story contest.
* Processed crit of "And the Dog Died." Oops. Yeah, I guess I only explained some parts in my own mind.
* Processed Les Bonnes Fees personal rejection of "The Radiator Burped" - "not quite right for us. Of course, I can't really tell you what is right for us, because I don't know until I see it. That said, your work is wonderful, and I'd love to see more." Moderately encouraging.

08/11/2008 - Monday, 1/2 work at IDS, but saw movie in the PM instead of writing.
* Read FFW Small Markets, FundforWriters newsletters
* Downloaded files to crit from TCSFWNetc and posted my intro. Maybe I should have done that *before* putting my story up for critique!
* Started doing crit of "The Delivery" for writers group.
* Processed todfox's crit of "And the Dog Died"

05/25/2008 - Sunday, no work
* penthius freewriting - a trite little framework about wannabe colonists forced to live in the slums of their new home.
* Transferred new revision of "The Unkindness of Ravens" to desktop computer, changed status in spreadsheets.
* Processed new status of "Salvaging Scottwell" FKA "Police Bot"
* Processed Fictitious Force's rejection of "The Radiator Burped."
* Added "steampunk" to my definition of Vicesteed on the various places that I talk about it. Just a small change, but keywords and tags are important, and I can't think why I didn't change it before. Also, I totally need to create a document wherein I track the various places I need to change/update my writing info when such changes occur--a new project, a new publication, etc.
* Printed off Critters crits of Vicesteed Ch. 13.
* Sent one repeating critter Chapter 14 of Vicesteed for editing.
* Updated Vicesteed rough chapter summaries and submitted Chapter 14 into the Critters queue, where it will eventually bubble up to the top.

05/24/2008 - Saturday, no work
* Updated OpenOffice on laptop.
* Went through and marked up "Salvaging Scottwell" for edits again, using douglascole's notes for part of it. That story rocks on toast. It will be even more awesome once I finish these edits. Robots! Adaptive programming! Ghetto uprising! Beating the man at his own game! Gah! I want it to succeed so much that just thinking about its future gives me butterflies. Right now I have three stories that I'm really proud of, and none of them are out there yet: "Ice Mother," "Salvaging Scottwell," and "The Unkindness of Ravens" (which was out there but had been recalled for further edits).
* Finished making editing changes to "The Unkindness of Ravens." Hope I've fixed the bad beginning, but am not sure it's actually good yet. At least it doesn't involve flashbacks!

05/23/2008 - Friday, full+ work at NgithOwl
Read WritersDigest newsletter - excellent article listing 101 best sites for writers (http://writersdigest.com/101BestSites). Created syndicated livejournal feeds for a couple of the winning blogs that I found to be interesting--bransford and lperkinsagent. Also started following another agent blog that already has a livejournal, arcaedia.