layla: (Evil author)
Layla ([personal profile] layla) wrote2009-02-01 09:43 pm

\o/

Submitted a short story today, for the first time since early 2007. Here's hoping it's the first of many more...

Edit: New, more streamlined layout, too.

[identity profile] pamola.livejournal.com 2009-02-02 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats. And keep submitting them. I just reread the auto-biographical part of Fritz Leiber's Ghost Light. It discusses how he scraped through the Great Depression trying to become an author, while holding jobs from inspector at a McDonald-Douglas plant to Episcopal Minister (never made it through training). All the while he plugs away at submitting story after story. I think it takes him thirty years to be supported only by his writing (not counting the time he was writing encyclopedias in Chicago).

[identity profile] laylalawlor.livejournal.com 2009-02-03 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! Yeah ... you need to have stories out in circulation in order to make it work, and even though a lot of them may be rejected, sitting around with a bunch of mostly finished stories does me absolutely no good at all. Just getting them out there, having something on an editor's desk at all times -- it's the only way to get to where I want to be.