Today was cold and wet and nasty…and I couldn’t be happier about that.
I was able to turn the air conditioner off today and act like it’s actually fall. I spent the time, inside because of the rain, doing the crossword puzzle, watching the latest episode of Supernatural, and sending out a hundred or so rejection letter e-mails for Kaleidotrope.
That last isn’t much fun, though. It turns the crushing of some poor writer’s dream — or at least hope — and turns it into soul-crushing tedium. I try not to send out form letters — try to give people some kind of constructive feedback, since I think that benefits us both — and when there are more than a hundred of those, and even when it’s not a lot of individualized feedback, it eat up the hours. And I still have some 200+ submissions to get through.
At least I’m closed to new submissions until January. (I’m making an exception for art, of which I have run out.)
Anyway, no long weekend for me, and the temperatures are predicted to rise back up into the 60s during the week. But I’m hopeful that we’ll get at least a little bit of fall before the first big snow storm.
It’s nice of you to give the feedback. I know I always appreciate it when feedback arrives with a rejection email. But I wonder if you might want to move to tiered rejections, to cut down on some of the work? A standard rejection for some, and others flagged for feedback?
I’m enjoying the new Kaleidotrope. The ‘enchanted creature not in my usual form’ story is my favourite.