... "Moonlighting" is out ...
July 11, 1999
8:44 a.m.
Well, I'm almost getting caught up. All manuscripts ready to mail, desk pretty much cleared, e-mails almost all responded to. Weight almost all lifted from my chest. I like to be busy. I like having a list, and seeing things get checked off. But there's a lot going on in my life right now. New job. Two stories I'm trying to get out the door. The new site. Brigid. Lisa. House stuff. And as a result, I'm playing the priority game--you know, deciding literally every hour what is the most important thing I can be doing. Yeah, I know. You're thinking..."Why are you sitting here writing this entry?" It's complicated. Anyway. I don't like being so far behind on things. It gnaws on me, and makes it almost impossible to really relax. I lay in bed at night, thinking about The List that sticks in my mind like a ghostly post-it. I find myself rushing the little tasks I have to do, making them take longer. In the good news arena, Charlene Brusso reports a sighting of Artemis Magazine with Linda Dunn's and my collaboration, "Moonlighting", in it. So, I did a quick update to my bibliography. On the bad news front, I received rejections from Artemis and also from Ginjer Buchanan, saying that the novel's writing was pretty good, but that the story was too familiar for her. Well . . . you win and you lose, I suppose. On to the next publisher. And in a similiar vein, I've got a lot of writing I need to do today. So, I'll cut this one short.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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