Holidays over, I turned to other outstanding obligations. I had edits requested from two editors, which they wanted by the end of the year, and so I read them over and tweaked the stories.
You often read how hard it is to read editors' comments; perhaps it's the particular editors involved with these stories, or maybe it's just years of writer's workshops, but I found the process pleasant today. It's really rather cool to have someone who likes your story enough to buy it helping to make sure it's the best story it can be before hundreds of strangers see it.
Revisiting the stories also made me eager to see these two anthologies in print!
You often read how hard it is to read editors' comments; perhaps it's the particular editors involved with these stories, or maybe it's just years of writer's workshops, but I found the process pleasant today. It's really rather cool to have someone who likes your story enough to buy it helping to make sure it's the best story it can be before hundreds of strangers see it.
Revisiting the stories also made me eager to see these two anthologies in print!