It’s been almost four years since I submitted something to a market. I submitted a short story called Total Immersion to Fantasy and Science Fiction back in 2007 and received my first and only rejection letter. Loading up the story and looking it over now, I see clearly why it was rejected. Cliché, boring, and full of amateur mistakes. Things I should have caught then had I really looked over the story and had the right people read it....

For two weeks now, I’ve been keeping up with the writing. As mentioned last post, I’ve been continuing to wake up early and get some Flash Fiction in. When this post was written, their total weight came in at 4108 words. Combine that with the 4798 short story I finished, and I’m up to roughly 9000 words in the past two weeks. It’s not enough compared to be a professional, but I’m climbing. I’m sitting waiting for a first reader...