Someday I’ll look back on this and laugh. Right now I’m just embarrassed.<\/p>\n
But I choose to look at it this way: the story was worth 39\u00a2 and an envelope to them.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, I submitted three stories to three different magazines, and forgot to include an SASE<\/a> with, or write “DISPOSABLE” on, any of the manuscripts. Yeah. ’cause I’m smart like that. And by the way, none of the stories was really very good– I found them in my old computer files while I was prepping for NaNoWriMo<\/a> and decided, what the hell, I might as well start collecting rejection slips now. And I have!<\/p>\n As D pointed out, my other mistake with this particular story might have been dropping the F-bomb<\/a> far too liberally, starting in the second paragraph.*<\/span> Respectable magazines generally don’t like to print too much of that sort of thing. Good to know.<\/p>\n I suspect the other two manuscripts aren’t coming back. They won’t fit in a #10 envelope, and it’s too much trouble for editors to deal with a clueless n00b like me. (in Napoleon Dynamite voice) Idiot!<\/span> It’s probably just as well– I can and should write better stories now. Just gotta get into the habit of actually finishing them<\/span> and then sending them out<\/span> into the world to seek their fortune.<\/p>\n Hey, did I mention that “Antique”<\/a> was published on the flash-fiction web site 365 tomorrows<\/span>? That didn’t suck.<\/p>\n ~CKL Someday I’ll look back on this and laugh. Right now I’m just embarrassed. But I choose to look at it this way: the story was worth 39\u00a2 and an envelope to them. Earlier this month, I submitted three stories to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
* <\/span>She asked me: “Were you listening to the Penny Arcade<\/a> podcast<\/a> when you wrote this?” But no, it was years before I ever met those hooligans, so I can’t claim them as a bad influence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"