{"id":1333,"date":"2019-10-15T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2019-10-15T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:20:28","slug":"a-variety-of-october-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/15\/a-variety-of-october-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"A Variety of October Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editing Space Crazies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The short version of &#8220;how&#8217;s editing on Space Crazies going&#8221; is: okay? I guess? I am on track to finish by the end of the month but I am slowing down. Partly that&#8217;s due to more work being needed in the second half of the novel than the first, so it takes more spoons, and partly because of depression so I have less spoons to give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pitch Wars<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have not heard anything from any of my mentor choices. Picks get made in 18 days; I think it&#8217;s highly unlikely that if I was even slightly in the running someone would have requested a full by now. I&#8217;ll wait until November 1st to mark it as a rejection in my spreadsheet but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rejection Challenge<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m at 146 rejections. I wrote a new short story last week, <em>Ganymede Days<\/em> came back (after 140 days at Analog!) as well as <em>You Only Bake Twice<\/em> (78 days at Strange Horizons) so I&#8217;ve had three whole submissions this month. Five rejections so far, which is pretty low for me, but reflects more that there is simply a lack of places to yet hear from. All but two queries for Blackout Odyssey have come back (not including the Pitch Wars submissions); one of those is due to expire (&#8220;if you don&#8217;t hear from me in 12 weeks, consider that a no&#8221;) this week. The last outpost is a small press that I can follow up with in January 2020 if I don&#8217;t hear from them sooner. I am pretty sure I will hit 150 rejections by November. After that I will stop counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mean I will keep track in my spreadsheet but am not going to make a new challenge chart. I think we can safely say I beat this one too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blackout Odyssey<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;is going into the drawer come first of November. I&#8217;m tired. I&#8217;m tired of hitting my head against a wall. I need to level up before I can figure out what I&#8217;m doing wrong, and take a fresh look at its query package, and frankly I have other novels more suited to my time and energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anthology News<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In slightly better news, the littlest pillbug and I are organizing an anthology. There will be more news as we get things finalized, but one thing is for certain: it will be an anthology of speculative, low-stakes fiction that we are terming &#8220;lo-fi&#8221;. No chosen ones, no saving-the-world; just quiet, charming stories where things gently go wrong and people just as gently put them back together. I&#8217;m looking forward to being on the other side of submissions for a bit. More details to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Space Pirate Day<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year I was goofing around with a new way of curling my hair and I sent a selfie to Cutie. &#8220;Omg!&#8221; came the reply. &#8220;You look just like a space pirate!&#8221; Then: &#8220;&#8230;I don&#8217;t know why I said that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I was like, wait. Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So ever since I&#8217;ve been leaning into the look, and today seemed like a good a day as any to celebrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a691df9c1a86&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a691df9c1a86\" class=\"wp-block-image wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72323432_2154210454680322_8598090936758566912_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A selfie in front of the mirror by Victoria, who has curled her hair and is wearing a black corset and red coat.\" class=\"wp-image-1338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72323432_2154210454680322_8598090936758566912_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72323432_2154210454680322_8598090936758566912_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72323432_2154210454680322_8598090936758566912_n.jpg 2003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption>The right phrase makes picking out items for your wardrobe a snap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mind you the corset is a bit snug for sitting at the computer all day editing, so I might change into something a bit more Space Pirate Accountant for the afternoon. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A variety of updates for mid-October, with a bit of space piracy thrown in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,213,7,111],"tags":[59,62,219,81,90,83],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-editing","category-personal","category-submissions-rejections","tag-pitchwars","tag-rejectionchallenge","tag-anthology","tag-blackout-odyssey","tag-editing","tag-space-crazies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","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=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}