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Back to Journal  « Twain, Sherlock, and Whitman at Telltale | 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 12-13 | Extended Family Salute - April 2007 Edition » 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 12-13 March 31, 2007 Subs 365-368: Fourth story to McSweeney's. Fifth story to Strange Horizons (8th sub there overall). Fourteenth story to Writers of the Future. My first short film sub to the Wholphin ("the McSweeney's DVD"). And I might have another Whophin sub shortly, as the director of a film I co-wrote and performed in a while back just put the finishing touches on it. Rejections 252-3: Four days from Jim Baen's Universe. A few months from AHMM's Mysterious Photo Rejection 254: Thirteenth wasn't the charm from Writers of the Future. Quarterfinalist. Have to admit I had higher hopes for this one than I've had in a long time, if we can pretend no impartiality about my own work. At any rate, this brings my current tally to... Non-placers: 6 Quarterfinalists: 6 Semifinalists: 1 Finalists: 0 Placers: 0 ...since I started submitting there in Dec 1998. I entered annually at most for the first few years, but I've stepped that up to nine out of the last ten quarters, if you include my 14th submission sent this week. I've sold one of my quarterfinalists to Asimov's and another to a semipro market back in 1999 or 2000. I've retired my semifinalist story (which was my milestone 150th rejection overall). It's one of those things where, long after exhausting most potential markets for it, I've decided that it's a far cry from my best work and getting it published even somewhere obscure would be more of an embarassment than a pleasure. It's possible that's why I've never made it past the first reader there; the story she liked the most of mine is the WotF submission that I liked the least. Ah well. I'll keep at it until I'm disqualified. Probably will never sell to Analog or The New Yorker either, but what are you gonna do? In other news, I'm torn about working on long work vs short work. The little success I've had in the short fiction "proving ground" (especially the failure of my short fiction that I feel is superior to what I've already sold) keeps me vacillating between questions: (a) Do I need to spend more time here before "graduating" to longer stuff? or (b) Is short fiction just not my bag, baby? Anything to keep me from asking the obvious: Does anybody even want the kind/style of stories I'm writing, no matter how good or bad they get? And if editors don't believe in my stories, and now I don't believe in my stories, then what am I wasting everybody's time for? I've heard many times how long it takes to get a writing career going. I've heard many times how long it can be between one's first and second pro sale. But with life and my inner and outer critics clearly winning every battle, I'm not sure how much longer I can do this. Filed under Happy Fun Log, Journal, Writers of the Future  
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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