another trudge

[aamcnamara]

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Another Struggle day.

I spent way too much of it watching A Very Potter Musical. Warning: it is literally two hours long. This is a fact which I did not realize until I was ensnared (ensnared, I tell you!) by its awesome.

Then I spent way too much of it angsting about having to write.

Upsides: I got a thousand words done, eventually; I queried about a short story submission that's been out for a while; I made a new submissions spreadsheet which will keep everything much more organized than before, if I can figure out just a few more tricks in Excel.

Also, I learned that Cicada magazine is now accepting electronic submissions. I have had it in the back of my mind as a good market for a while now, but the whole process of printing it out and mailing it in and waiting for a while never seemed worth it enough. (I know, arduous.) In fact, it's sort of amazing that they survived this long without e-submissions, seeing as how they actively want teen submissions. But hey, their bailiwick.

This whole day, I was itching to work on short stories, not the novel. I plan to follow that impulse this evening, starting now.

Comments

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Fair warning: as I understand it, Cicada (and all the Cricket-affiliated magazines) buy the rights to the stories they publish in perpetuity. Once you sell it to them, it's theirs forever. They pay decently, but not well enough for that, IMO.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I think someone told me that Cicada (etc.) auto-send out a boilerplate contract, but if you complain, they send you a more reasonable one? That's my memory of it, anyway.

I will be careful about that, in any case. Thanks for the headsup.

[aliseadae]

Mm. I think Vylar said that at your panel at Wiscon.