La Vie Boheme

I am officially declaring this

I am officially declaring this my week to clear off my proverbial writer's desk. At least one more of the stories listed as being edited WILL go out this week, damn it. I know, I know, I promised the Minions two more chapters of The Host to edit, but this is making me nutty.

Kick me...

Grar grar grar. So I worked on cleaning up "Midsummer" this morning. Oh. My. God. Apparently, when I did my major rewrite, which included switching a lot of sections around, I didn't bother to do a lot of work cleaning up transitions, making sure the new order of events made sense, and so on. What I had on my hands was an incoherent MESS. At first I thought, okay, maybe I just rearranged sections and then submitted the wrong draft. No, no I didn't, because there were some rewrites, just not nearly enough. I was careless and a little cocky because I adore this story. What kills me is that I really thought this could be the story that was good enough for F&SF, and I already submitted to them in this state. Grar. Kicking myself.

But anyway, it's coherent again, and is currently running off on my printer to send off today to Realms of Fantasy.