It has been some time since an update and I have been taking this time to write. I have a notebook on me in some form almost everywhere I go and I jot ideas, snippets, people, and ideas down. Then, when I am fresh, I transfer these into my writing journal. Sometimes these can spin out pages of brain fart; other times I only get as far as the opening line of something spectacular and then refuse to touch it because that first line is so perfect anything else is just going to ruin it.
I have been submitting my first short story to various science fiction and fantasy publishers. I have not had anything negative in my rejection letters. To the contrary, there have been some very positive aspects to the rejections.
A writer is tempered by their rejections.
I resubmitted the story to the fifth publisher tonight. Maybe fifth time lucky?
I have also been working on the novels and other constructs. There are five good, solid short stories that have gone from my writing journal into their own folders with plots and characters being developed. I even went to take photographs of a specific area in Brisbane that will be the scene for a post-apocalyptic story about a man's legacy and the future of the human race.
