I completed the first draft of my “Girl Scout” novella – just over 27,000 words. From the time I started the outline until I wrote the last word was one month and four days, which is hardly a record but still pretty good, considering. Now the second draft is done: Thanks to my sinus infection, sitting on the couch with my editing hat on is about all I felt like doing this weekend. The second draft subtracted a few hundred words, and added another thousand. What’s next? Third draft, of course. (Actually, I have other writing news coming up later.) It’s a humorous action story (as usual, I hope it’s humorous) set in a girl’s camp during a summer drought. Now I’m going to have to come up with a title … after all, I can’t keep calling it my Girl Scout story because there are no Girl Scouts in it—just a group like the Scouts, which I also haven’t named yet. Usually I’m not this far into a project before I come up with a title. But then, usually my early titles stink. Meanwhile, Grocery Purgatory is now lying in the (hopefully) welcoming arms of the magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Their submission guidelines give a three month turnaround time, but when I electronically submitted I got a message saying their average response time at the moment is four weeks. They’re a sister magazine to Asimov’s, so I’m not getting my hopes up.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:45:15 +0000
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