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Back to Journal  « Trinoc*coN 2007 Con Report | The Year Our Brains Turn Around | Telltale Audio - September 2007 » The Year Our Brains Turn Around September 29, 2007 Two milestones this week, both relating to January first: We've hit a milestone of good health news relating to that cryptic family medical emergency (detailed as much as I'm gonna here and here) that's been weighing on us since New Year's morning. Yeah, I know the last time I said something positive about it, things took a rotten turn, but there's evidence instead of just hope that I'm right this time. And less importantly, my 100th submission of the year went out last Saturday, making this my most productive year as far as sending my stuff out into the world--less than nine months in. Yes, the latter is an effect, heavily influenced by the former. I've trained myself (wisely/stupidly/both) to respond to shitstorms by working harder, punching through. So 100+ subs in 9 months--including a relatively high number of new works--has been as much a feat of desperation as of dedication. In truth, it feels like I've been treading water all year, working almost exclusively on shorter work (when I aimed to spend the bulk of the year on book length stuff), barely keeping up with the business side of Telltale (and consequently far behind on the creative side of things), and all but letting Guidevines and my own site fester. And I've been sloppy, both in decision-making and in sending out works to top tier markets before they were ready. I'm not convinced more solid revising standards would've made sales out of the rejections (even the near misses), but it's unfortunate that just as editors are starting to recognize my name from one submission to the next that the work they're identifing with me has been so sloppy. In person I've behaved little better. My extroverted energy has been so spent that I often don't know what's coming out of my mouth until I'm saying it--sometimes not even then--and I find I can't figure out how to end a sentence or an idea (including on a Trinoc-coN panel, I was embarrassed to admit the other day). So to everyone, I apologize. Personally, I owe a lot of people emails and calls and I'll get to them, though this week I might not be answering the phone at regular hours as I retrain myself how to sleep (and I'll talk this later, probably). Professionally, Telltale gets a kick in the ass, then Guidevines, then the novel. This has been a messed up year, and I'm determined to use the last three months of it to keep from having to write it off completely. |
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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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