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The story I sold in March is going to be out in the Ideomancer issue for September. I'll post links and such when it goes live. (And e-mail a pile of people who don't read this but might care, like Dad, and Heather, who specifically asked me to tell her about it.)

For those who are scared of editing hurting their precious words, I should say: I revised this story twice after I started sending it out. once when the editor at Clarkesworld turned it down flat, but with some excellent comments about what didn't work for him. I ignored 50% of his remarks, I think, becuase they didn't fit what i wanted the story to be, and agreed with the other half enough to think it was worth tweaking before it went to another market (There was actually one pretty horrid bit of unlikelihood in there with which I agreed fervently as soon as he mentioned it, but which my brain had skipped over)

Then Elizabeth Bear at Ideomancer said it didn't work as it was, but if I did X, she'd look at it again (Where X included cutting it by a third). I did, they took it, and I think it's as close as it's ever going to get to the spiral shape in my brain. Much closer than the rough version I started sending out.

For a short piece that didn't take long to write or to revise, it feels like a bloody complicated little commentary.

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The story I sold in March is going to be out in the Ideomancer issue for September. I'll post links and such when it goes live. (And e-mail a pile of people who don't read this but might care, like Dad, and Heather, who specifically asked me to tell her about it.)

For those who are scared of editing hurting their precious words, I should say: I revised this story twice after I started sending it out. once when the editor at Clarkesworld turned it down flat, but with some excellent comments about what didn't work for him. I ignored 50% of his remarks, I think, becuase they didn't fit what i wanted the story to be, and agreed with the other half enough to think it was worth tweaking before it went to another market (There was actually one pretty horrid bit of unlikelihood in there with which I agreed fervently as soon as he mentioned it, but which my brain had skipped over)

Then Elizabeth Bear at Ideomancer said it didn't work as it was, but if I did X, she'd look at it again (Where X included cutting it by a third). I did, they took it, and I think it's as close as it's ever going to get to the spiral shape in my brain. Much closer than the rough version I started sending out.

For a short piece that didn't take long to write or to revise, it feels like a bloody complicated little commentary.