Have an open call opening up tomorrow that I have TOO MANY options to sub to. Decisions are hard 😭

#AmSubbing

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Hey, an editor of global and earned importance enjoyed something I sent her!
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Well, my Submission Grinder 2026 Dashboard sure looks more friendly with an acceptance and a payment in there for this year 🌞

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Revised a piece of flash fairly significantly & will now let it sit a bit while I do some beta reading

#AmEditing #AmWriting #AmSubbing

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Have subbed my two prompted flash stories to the wonderful @trashcatlit.bsky.social in a break from being DIY-ish. Now crossing my paint-streaked fingers.

Does blue gloss come off laptop keyboards? Asking for a friend...
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All finished (except beta read, which is ongoing) & I’m picking up the Apple Watch today

+ Subbed a bonus story
+ Wrote a #FFC piece

- still need to send my #QueerPit requests out…probably tonight after I get back from watching my niece’s cheerleading

#WriteSky #AmSubbing #AmWriting #AmQuerying

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Another piece of flash subbed today!
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I don't know whether, for other open calls, this story would be good to sub. Set on a science/med space station, a person hunts down the health execs who denied their brother implants that would save his life

Timely, but maybe *seems* like I'm condoning the insurance CEO murder
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Boo, I have a flash written years ago that could be considered timely right now. But then I realized that thanks to an event that happened earlier this year, it could be considered political, & the open call says "no politics." So, I guess I will move on to another story.
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Not just one, but *two* short stories submitted today!

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I managed to convince myself that an email that arrived this morning was a rejection, but then I opened it and it wasn't 🙂

So that was nice.

Hope everyone else is having a good Friday.
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Two manuscript rejections in one week (one high-profile editor, one well-known agent). The bright side, I just learned that one of my poems has been accepted for publication in a NH literary journal, so I suppose that keeps the universe in balance.
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What it feels like as Illustrator @alexandersants.bsky.social and I re-examine and re-work some things for our kids' book. Some days, you just have to turn your creative project upside down to figure out what's best. Ha! #writerslife #amwriting #amsubbing #childrensbooks #illustrators #writers

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Got my first rejection of the year out of the way, so here's hoping the rest of 2025 gets better! #PB #amwriting #amsubbing