Bordering on useless
Borderlands rejected 'Lest We Forget' today (big surprise), providing typically 'helpful' criticism: "It started too slowly, and seemed to end too soon."
Three editors and that's all they can come up with. And how you can make this criticism of a 1,500 word story I'll never know. I'm seriously considering ditching all Australian markets (with the exception of Andromeda) and just focusing overseas. I'm tired of the close-minded parochial attitudes. All they do is publish their friends' stories and lobby for government grants.
Yes, I'm sore and bitter, but there's also a lot of truth in this diatribe. I'm well and truly over it.
In a sunnier development, I finished the changes to Loaded last night, cutting 900 words from the 30 pages. I estimate it will take another week or so to do the final on-screen draft, although if I'm feeling industrious on the weekend I might be able to kick a good deal of its arse then.
Commune? 1,900 words added to it yesterday. Oh yeah.
Three editors and that's all they can come up with. And how you can make this criticism of a 1,500 word story I'll never know. I'm seriously considering ditching all Australian markets (with the exception of Andromeda) and just focusing overseas. I'm tired of the close-minded parochial attitudes. All they do is publish their friends' stories and lobby for government grants.
Yes, I'm sore and bitter, but there's also a lot of truth in this diatribe. I'm well and truly over it.
In a sunnier development, I finished the changes to Loaded last night, cutting 900 words from the 30 pages. I estimate it will take another week or so to do the final on-screen draft, although if I'm feeling industrious on the weekend I might be able to kick a good deal of its arse then.
Commune? 1,900 words added to it yesterday. Oh yeah.
posted by The Fearless Writer at 3:07 PM
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