{"id":1236,"date":"2019-05-28T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2019-05-28T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:23:47","slug":"new-fiction-and-new-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/28\/new-fiction-and-new-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fiction and New Attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the bummer of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"last week's (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/2019\/05\/21\/so-how-goes-trying-to-get-published-victoria-set-backs\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s<\/a> post, I&#8217;m glad to report a new story out! My flash-fic <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ganymede Riots (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/futurefire.net\/2019.49\/fiction\/ganymede.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ganymede Riots<\/a><\/em>&#8211;a sort-of sequel to last November&#8217;s <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ganymede Night (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/stupefyingstories.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/showcase-nights-over-ganymede-by.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ganymede Night<\/a>s<\/em>&#8211;is up and free to read at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Future Fire (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/futurefire.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Future Fire<\/a>. The magazine is full of fantastic flash and poetry, be sure to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"download a copy (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/futurefire.net\/2019.49\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">download a copy<\/a> in the format of your choice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Space Crazies news&#8211;I know a lot of you are anxious to find out how that&#8217;s going&#8211;I have reached out to a potential editor and she&#8217;s currently giving it a read over to see if it&#8217;s a project she wants to take on. So fingers crossed there. Said editor came highly recommended by my friend Liz Hirst, <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethhirstblog.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/05\/come-to-my-launch\/\">who has a book launching soon<\/a>, that you should also check out if you like psychological horror. I&#8217;m trying not to let my previous experiences colour my expectations too much, but I am cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still trying to reorganize my plans for the summer since I have no idea when Space Crazies might come back to me. Maybe I&#8217;ll work on some short stories, or edit <em>Blackout Odyssey<\/em> to try and see if I can figure out how to boost the wordcount without adding anything superfluous. (I&#8217;m also thinking I might submit <em>Blackout Odyssey<\/em> for this year&#8217;s Pitch Wars; I have nothing to lose by submitting, after all.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things still feel up in the air, but it&#8217;s less a panic over too many variables and more a sense that I am free to follow inspiration should any strike. I&#8217;ve mind-mapped out some potential priorities to give myself a rough goal list and some structure but until I sort out Space Crazies, things will remain unsettled. Any plans for the summer has to stay in pencil. So it goes! But at least I don&#8217;t feel so adrift. Now, if only I could work on that feeling of running out of time&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current submission count: 83<br>Current rejection count: 63<br>Current manuscripts out: 2<br>Current fucks given: 0<br>Amount of bubblegum to chew: also 0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New free to read fiction and assorted updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,179,111,9],"tags":[81,67,191,190,161,102,83,192],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-submissions-rejections","category-writing","tag-blackout-odyssey","tag-free-to-read","tag-ganymede-nights","tag-ganymede-riots","tag-liz-hirst","tag-math","tag-space-crazies","tag-the-future-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}