... synchronicity ...
June 1, 1999
8:46 p.m.
E-mail tonight brings news of Brian Plante's success, as he sold a story that I had commented on some time ago to Analog. Needless to say, I'm pleased for him, and quite jealous. You see, he's sold five stories to Stan now, and I've only sold two. Guess I'll just have to write more. Okay, that's a sneaky way of saying that my story "A Matter of Pride" was just accepted by Analog this afternoon. I received the contract today, and am quite pleased. Stan Schmidt had asked to see a rewrite on it a month or so, and commented on a couple issues he was concerned over. First, the story was too long. Second, he had a technical problem with it. So, I shaved a thousand words, and concocted a work around for the flaw he spotted. Apparently I did a decent job of it. In more good news, I spent the morning working on a story I started last time Lisa Silverthorne was in town. When I first wrote it, I hated it. But looking at it now, I can see the first ten pages are actually pretty good, assuming I mush them a little, and hold my head at just the right angle in the light. The last ten pages were quite odiferous, of course. But assuming I get rid of those, I think I can pick up where I left off and run with them. So, that is pretty pleasing, too. As far as I can tell at this point, June is beating the heck out of May.   Thanks go to my good friend in Indy, Phil Yager, for pointing out that Willie McCovey's nickname, I'm pretty sure, was "Stretch"--not "Big Smooth". At least that feels right as I'm now remembering. Can anyone tell me for sure if there was a "Big Smooth?" That sure sounds familiar. Maybe it was a basketball player. Elsie, are you out there? While I'm passing around my appreciation, I should mention James Eggebeen, who recently went out of his way to e-mail me a correction to a piece of HTML that I had somehow messed up. It was showing itself to folks that use IE 4 and clicked on the daily log along the top menu. it should be fixed now (at least I've not had any complaints), and I tip my hat to him for taking the time to figure it out for me. Have a good one.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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