jazzfish | verbage: Bookwyrms

New plan: instead of stabbing myself in the face over a rewrite, try writing something else. Something for an anthology that doesn't pay as well as the big markets, so it doesn't feel like such a big deal. Then go back and revise the space story and send it out, then write something else (another anthology, maybe), then revise the first anthology story and send it out, and keep the pendulum going. Ideally this'll give me some needed critical distance between the "writing" and the "revising," and also keep me from getting so sick of a story that I don't want to deal with it anymore.

I'd like to do one swing of the pendulum a month. I think that's a sustainable pace. It'd give me six stories written in 2012, which would be a good start. (I wanted to do something similar last year, but that whole MOVING thing kinda got in the way.)

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Neat things: The Virginia Tech library. DE VERMIS LIBRVM.

First anthology: Bibliotheca Fantastica, "Stories having to do with lost, rare, weird, or imaginary books, or any aspect of book history or book culture, past, present, future, or uchronic." I've been chewing on it for a couple of weeks now during downtime, looking for a decent story idea. So of course the usable idea comes to me at the end of my five-day vacation, instead of when I could have taken a couple of days to hammer it out.

Partly I'm out of practice, and partly I'm still finding the story as I go... but the writing process is taking longer and more effort than I'd hoped. Eh, well. Verbage is verbage.