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[felis_ultharus]

So I've been working a lot more on my writing. This is something I've been meaning to do all summer, but I couldn't get past my school-induced writer's block until just yesterday (I've only been averaging 1-3 pages a day of fiction since January).

I want to submit four pieces this time to the CBC short story competition, if I can manage it. I currently have two in the works, which I'm working on at the same time as a piece of poetry, and, of course, my novel.

I'm also dabbling in poetry -- something I've never really done before. Not sure how it's going to work out, but what I have now is not bad for an early effort.

For all the awful writing I've read in my courses, it has had this fringe benefit: it's made me realize that worse writers than I am are frequently published.

Some of them get government grants.

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[ubergreenkat.livejournal.com]

...short story contest... that place where i have been saying "i should get my ass in gear for that" every year for the past five years... still haven't. I always wonder how they'd feel about a) stories with an emphasis on sex, b) stories with swearing...

maybe submitting poetry would work better for me

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I've entered the last two years, to no avail. The very first thing I ever sent out was to them, and I got my first rejection letter from the same. I'm thinking about framing it ^_^

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

Something about rejection letters always made me somewhat giddy rather than depressed.. it's wierd. Of course I suppose acceptance letters are better but I haven't got any of those yet so I guess any letter is good :D

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Same for me. I've gotten so many non-responses that getting a rejection letter at least makes me feel like a human being. Half the time, I wonder if it even gets to them, and the other half I wonder if it was so bad it didn't merit a response:/

By the way, foi_nefaste is thinking tomorrow for a Gravi night. Does that work for you?)

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

Since I just read it now and I don't have the DVD with me, we can't watch it I'm afraid. If you guys want to do something else. Let me know. I check LJ and Hotmail during my breaks.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I only got foi_nefaste's message last night (though she sent it the day before).

How about I go rent Gravi at sci-fi? At worst, I can bring my fansub copy and watch it on her computer ^_^

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds good. What time? 7h or 8h?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Not sure who I'm responding to, but I'm guessing jenjoou or em_fish?

foi_nefaste said 8-ish, so I figure that's when we'll be there.

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

jenjoou. Sorry, forgot I'm not automatically logged on at work. :P

8ish it is. It'll give me a chance to go to the bank (money! yay!) and pick up my manga. I'll think of something to do for the rest of the time. :)

[jc2004.livejournal.com]

There's some abysmal crap being published. Poetry is kind of fun - I just had some published in velvet heat. It's a good way to break into the market - get into some sort of anthology. Good luck with the CBC short story competition. I always have such trouble with short stories. Everything comes out novels.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

It tends to come out that way for me, too, but I think having a novel on the side is helping.

What's velvet heat?