#introduction Bi poly married speculative fiction writer. I mostly write short stories and poetry - long form stories are harder for me. I dabble in a lot of crafts, make messes, pet kitties, play games, and dither about how to introduce myself on social media sites (especially since I'll likely just lurk. It's what I do). I'm a submissions editor for Uncanny Magazine, and I read voraciously. Um... yeah, that's me.
One of the stories I sold this week I wrote back in 2017. It's been revised something like 6 times, and I didn't even start sending it out until 2019 where it started rounding up form rejections (9 of them in total).
I write first drafts super fast, but getting to a finished product takes me a while, and sending things out is a long haul, too. Patience and persistence pays off, and it's more than ok to be slow.
Signed another story contract today - that's two this week! This is shaping up to be a good year for my writing, which is odd, because I haven't actually *written* a darn thing in months. I've done some revising, but my creative brain is just not there right now. It's ok. I have a big backlog of stories and poems to be sending out, and sometimes it just takes a while.
The immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii. This jellyfish is biologically immortal. After mating, it reverts back to its adolescent state and can go through this cycle indefinitely.
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Also, it seems like it might be a good idea to dust off the @dream_foundry account and start making sure that we're putting content here too.
~adds it to the pile of to-dos~
Today I'm hoping to get a bunch of Flights of Foundry 2021 videos scheduled for release, doing some work with the captioning volunteers, and working on a style guide for the captioning project. Oh, and a meeting with the Con or Bust folks to get a few more details ironed out before the board meeting next week.
I predict my focus will survive through about three hours of all that, but we'll seeeee. And I've got bubble tea on the way, so that'll help.
~cracks knuckles~ Time to get to it.
I feel like maybe I should go and poke at my dreamwidth account too, but the chances that I'll have either time or energy to actually update it and/or read other people's posts... yeah... maybe it's ok that it just sits there, quietly gathering dust. DW is great! It's lovely and well run and a great idea and gosh I just can't right now.
eye contact
My "I survived the convention" present to myself arrived yesterday and it is so pretty! I highly recommend getting hair flowers from The Faerie Market - I feel like a character in a Tales game who's found an attachment andI want to wear it all the time. https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheFaerieMarket
Spec fic writer who pets many cats, plays games, and makes a lot of messes. Dream Foundry secretary, Flights of Foundry co-chair. Shy but fakes it well, especially in text.