The Agreement
Jul. 1st, 2012 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessStill absolutely zonked and mostly out of it from last week, but wanted to pop up to note that my little ghost story, The Agreement, just popped up at Abyss and Apex.
This story almost became a ghost itself -- I had one of those rare moments where I was seized by the first sentence and typed the whole thing through, saved, and zonked out, planning on returning to the story to check for spelling and that sort of thing the following day...
...only to find the following day that the computer was dead, dead, dead, and that getting things off the HP hard drive was trickier than it sounds. Once I finally managed the trick I shot off the story instantly to Abyss and Apex, and by "instantly" I mean, without a cover letter or the usual stuff that goes along with submissions. Luckily slush editor Camille Alexa forgave me and took the piece anyway, and here it is now, pulsing with pixels, one of my few pieces that remained completely unchanged from first draft to final publication. I didn't even edit while writing.
And now I go zonk out again. Coherency and interesting stuff later.
This story almost became a ghost itself -- I had one of those rare moments where I was seized by the first sentence and typed the whole thing through, saved, and zonked out, planning on returning to the story to check for spelling and that sort of thing the following day...
...only to find the following day that the computer was dead, dead, dead, and that getting things off the HP hard drive was trickier than it sounds. Once I finally managed the trick I shot off the story instantly to Abyss and Apex, and by "instantly" I mean, without a cover letter or the usual stuff that goes along with submissions. Luckily slush editor Camille Alexa forgave me and took the piece anyway, and here it is now, pulsing with pixels, one of my few pieces that remained completely unchanged from first draft to final publication. I didn't even edit while writing.
And now I go zonk out again. Coherency and interesting stuff later.