Recycling a Story

One of the two stories I submitted for the Witches and Dragons anthology was not accepted, so I now need to find a different market for it--or recycle it.  I've decided to recycle.  I am going to use elements from "The Witch of Braighe" in this new story, which I plan to submit to Phobos Magazine for their Deep, Black Sea issue.

A challenge I will face is that the word limit is 2500 words, but the story idea, which will involve a volley of rhyming couplets, might need more wordage than that.

I am also going to reuse a character.  My idea is, what if a character in "The Witch of Braighe" had made a different choice?  What if this character had valued slightly different things and been angrier?  I'd like to explore that other choice path.

I will say that it helped me very much that Phobos gave clear and vivid examples of the kinds of stories its editors want.  Sometimes, I feel like I'm in a guessing game when it comes to figuring out the types of stories desired, so having this clarity is something I appreciate.

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Submissions Today:  "A Lively Imagination" to Morgen Bailey.

A Unicorn Story in the Works

At one time I wrote a story about a unicorn for CBAY Books' Stepmothers and the Big, Bad Wolf anthology with the intent of writing about the metaphorical wolf that is fear, rather than a literal wolf in my story.  Turned out, however, that the bulk of the stories they got took the idea literally, so my unicorn story would have looked odd in that grouping, and the story was declined.

When people say 'wolf,' they actually mean 'wolf.'  Who knew?  :)

I now find myself faced with the prospect of writing another unicorn story that will in fact deal with the same theme (fear) as the first one.  It will be set in the modern world, though.  I am looking forward to this.  Now, I think, it's time to do some research.

Working on Story for 'Alone with Your Fear'

Tonight's writing involved working out the background for a story I will submit to Sirens Call later this summer. Tentative title is 'Andrion's Crown.' It will be submitted for the Alone with Your Fear anthology.

I was going to write a story for their Strange Little Girls anthology last year, but I never could work up a good idea.

Link to a Review

Here is a link to a Kirkus review of One Thousand Words for War.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/…/madeline-smoot/one-thousan…/

Submission: "Stavros"

Today I submitted "Stavros," a 100-word micro-fiction story, to the Morgen Bailey blog monthly competition.

https://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/

Link to Freelance Writing Job Leads

Freelance Writing Jobs listed at allindiewriters.com:
http://allindiewriters.com/freelance-writing-jobs/

Books, a Review, and the Day-Job

Tonight I took out some of what I wrote in the Ghost Hunter story last night and revised it.
I also reviewed a book called Witch-Finders by Vanessa Knipe, which I thought was very good--go read it!--and I'm eagerly awaiting The Mist Gate Crossings: Bascom's Revenge by Susan Bianculli.

Work has been very hectic because we've had to squeeze five days worth of work into three, right before two major events we're putting on. The one I'm involved with will last only a few hours, but the one some of my co-workers are involved in will last several days. We're going crazy at the office this week.

Music Video: Emil and Dariel - "Nothing Else Matters"

Two cellos.  What more do you need?  This is sublime music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEul3Opl-40

Podcastle Link

Hm! This would be an interesting place to submit my current finished first draft to:

http://podcastle.org/guidelines/