La Vie Boheme

Oh my gosh and oh

Oh my gosh and oh my golly, this is just a red letter writing day!! In addition to getting some good work done at Write Club tonight, I came home to find out that Strange Horizons has accepted "Rhythm of the Tides"! My first, honest to god, professional, non-RPG publication!! They're expecting to run it in September, but that isn't carved in stone yet. Oh my lord. I'm giddy.

I can't help it, I

I can't help it, I have to share. This is part of the email I got from Dawn about The Host:

"OK, I just finished chapter 10 last night and I did not want to put it down. It was going on midnight, my eyes were all bleary, I was yawning, my head and shoulders hurt from trying to hold the manuscript and a flashlight at the same time, and I fought tooth and nail to keep reading instead of going to sleep."

She absolutely made my day. :)

Back to work! I spent

Back to work! I spent my hour this morning doing some revising of "Girl Behind the Counter" (thanks Mike, for the reading and comments!), then I started shuffling my notecards around for "Midsummer". Tonight I'll start actually picking an order and redoing the manuscript. It was fascinating though, to think about how the story's mood and theme changed depending on what order I presented the scenes in. I was surprised to discover there was more than one coherent order!

In other news, I've started getting writerly spam ("We want YOUR manuscript!"). Now I feel like a REAL writer. ;)