Second verse same as the first
May. 21st, 2020 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hjdoomFairly sure I’ve just enjoyed a second bout of coronavirus. Thankfully it was just as a mild as the first time round but it necessitated twenty four hours in bed and light duties for several days following. Happily Marcus does not seem to have caught it. Since he had it badly his body hopefully churned out a whole bunch of antibodies while my immune system, cocky to a fault, has opted to take its chances. I assume I picked it up at the supermarket Where the good people of Northampton are taking a very relaxed approach to social distancing. I knew going outside was a mistake.
Another minor annoyance was finishing a story where I had a particular publication in mind and then discovering that I missed the submission window by two days. There’s other places I can shill it but I’m not particularly optimistic. The horror market for short fiction is both crowded and shrinking. I’ve got a couple of science fiction stories on the go that might turn into something saleable but I suspect my unwillingness to cleave to the current mass market style of writing will probably make them less attractive. I remind myself that Samuel Delany managed to smuggle a highly affected literary style into science fiction but then I remember he had to take a teaching job to pay the bills and he’s a much better writer than I will ever be. So it goes.
Another minor annoyance was finishing a story where I had a particular publication in mind and then discovering that I missed the submission window by two days. There’s other places I can shill it but I’m not particularly optimistic. The horror market for short fiction is both crowded and shrinking. I’ve got a couple of science fiction stories on the go that might turn into something saleable but I suspect my unwillingness to cleave to the current mass market style of writing will probably make them less attractive. I remind myself that Samuel Delany managed to smuggle a highly affected literary style into science fiction but then I remember he had to take a teaching job to pay the bills and he’s a much better writer than I will ever be. So it goes.
