grayrose

Cornerstone off to SH with only one critique. I wish I had this kind of confidence about all of my stories.

Lace and Blade arrived: nice.

Number of submissions currently out: 4.
Rejections expected within the next two weeks: 2
Seemingly shortlisted: 1 (the poem at GUD)

Got an Honorable mention from the Writers of the Future contest, first quarter. Neat - a rejection with a winner's certificate! 

That was the first story I ever wrote (late Aug. 07) , and while it is potentially strong, it has 7 pages of infodump at the very beginning. I know better now, but am hesitant to start reworking the thing because it overlaps with the book.

In other news, I dropped my laptop. Hard disk crashed. I am not sure yet how much data is lost, but certainly everything I've written in the last week (I think about 7-8K of the novel). I had a major breakthrough... Oh well. Bottomline, once-a-week backup is NOT enough. 'But I was young and foolish, / and now I am full of tears'. We'll see what my husband's friend will be able to restore.

Hope you're having a great weekend, everybody :)