I got my first acceptance letter yesterday. :D
Given it’s for a poem and for a semi-professional school journal (The Leading Edge*), but it’s still a tiny step up the publishing ladder. I can put that in a cover letter for a real publisher, right? Just not mention it’s a poem?
I don’t even do poetry. So it’s kind of ironic. But nice. I get $10 from it, lol.
In other news, I took Writing Excuses’s character-quirk episode to heart and am doing “auditions” for Teague, the main character in TWS, which I will start writing in January for Sanderson’s class. I kind of want her full name to be Teegree, but I like the spelling of “Teague,” and “Teagueree” looks retarded. But so does “Teeg,” to a lesser extent. I think.
Anyway. That $10 can go towards my WorldCon fund.
Excerpt of the day:
Flad heard the loud patter of unshod feet before three men ran before him in the road, blocking his way. Upon a second look, he saw they were boys—their oldest couldn’t have been more than seventeen, though all stood several inches taller than he did.
“There’s a toll t’walk our street,” the oldest said, puffing up his chest.
Flad smirked. Cute. “I’ll walk the other way, then,” he said, turning. He only took a few steps before the trio circled around him, blocking his new direction as well.
“There’s a toll for walkin’ anywhere,” the boy amended.
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*Yes, the one I used to edit for. But I got in on my own merits, thank you.
Hey, ten bucks is ten bucks. That's 300 baht 'round here. That converts to four liters of beer, or one large bottle of good rum and a two liter of coke.
ReplyDeleteThat's my kind of poetry.