…. I am really, really tired of February.<\/p>\n
But here we are on the 15th. I’m still submitting; I have 12 rejections under my belt so far for 2018 and 21 submissions\/queries. I sucked up my fears and am submitting Still Life<\/em> (got a rejection already!). It’s hard to explain why that one hurts more to send out than others, but it does; maybe it just means more to me personally. Northern Portents<\/em> has continued to rack up rejections, and I’ve collected enough that say “it’s well written but feels like part of a larger story” that I think I might shelve it until I have enough shorts in the shared universe to put together a Sinferrean anthology. (Which also gives me an excuse to write more Sinferreous short stories.)<\/p>\n Space Crazies<\/em> is still on hold. Ashes<\/em> query still proving difficult to finish.<\/p>\n It’s supposed to be mild this weekend so I might do some decluttering or at the very least some deep cleaning. I feel the need to move around more.<\/p>\n Next week we’ll have the first Things I Wish People Would Ask Me At Parties since 2016, so that is super exciting; I have another writer friend lined up for March and one for April. So check in next Wednesday for that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Cutie and I are talking about planning another adventure–maybe this time to the UK–and just the idea of planning a trip has me excited, even if funds don’t exist for it yet. Planning! Research! Excitement!<\/p>\n Oh and I have that Udemy course on travel writing still to take. Hmm.<\/p>\n February is still a pain in my ass but March is looking brighter and more interesting. Just gotta keep swimming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …. I am really, really tired of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,9],"tags":[62,82,120,83],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","category-writing","tag-rejectionchallenge","tag-ashes","tag-northern-portents","tag-space-crazies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}