As I type this, I forgot that yesterday was Confession Tuesday. Oh well, I’m still a little NaBloPoMo-ed out so I’m taking it easy on the blogging and getting ready for the holidays. I guess this post will make up for yesterday’s non-post.
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Today, I’m off from work—woo hoo! I rarely take days off, so as a result, I have built up more time than I can use in a year. In fact, I have three more days to use before we’re out for the rest of the year on December 21. If my calculations are correct, I have a mere nine days left to work this calendar year—just one more reason why I love where I work.
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So the kids and I are going Christmas shopping. Need to get a present for Tim; although, I think once we pick it out my son will tell his dad what we bought. *sigh*
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I have been sending out poems to journals like a mad fool. I have about eight submissions out there working for me, both print and online—that’s a record. I hate the submission process but I look at it as a necessary evil.
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Currently, I’m working on a new poem. Hope to post it sometime today.
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Also working on two articles for here and here. Hope to wrap them up sooner rather than later.
8 comments:
I'm interested in which online journals you've submitted to. Is it bad luck to name names?
All the best with the submissions,
you have a wonderful gift,
Peace and soft light to you and yours, M
great job sending stuff out! of course, let us know what you hear! i'm waiting on some of my own -- i've rec'd two thumbs up's and it's too early for the others. one said "six months or more."
was it you who said quite a while back, send them out and forget about them? if not, it's advice i've attributed to you. :)
i think that's what it takes of me. i'm new to submitting, so i could easily get obsessed with the waiting and the needing to know. instead, i'm trying to keep "at the work" so i don't think about them and so i'll have an ongoing crop to pick out and send when i get up the nerve again.
--carolee
congratulations on making through the daily november blogging, poetry submissions, and being able to stay home and chill. i love the poet mom post with photos of the family. the photos were poetry to me. they showed the beauty and goodness of family. peace and poetry, ananda
Bizzy p-mom! Good for you for having subs out there. I need to get on the horn in the next few weeks and submit a few short stories that have been lurking around.
Hope your shopping experience was fruitful, and that Alex kept his secret!
Erin, so far so good. I think the little man has forgotten what we bought.
Gotta keep those submissions out there. Not sure if I'll get any more responses (read: REJECTIONS)between now and the holdays, but the more out there the better the odds.
Ananda, Maithri--thanks for stopping by!
Carolee--Congrats on your acceptances. Keep sending your poems out and forget about them. Let them work for you while you're working on new poems. Cool!
Ceridwen--I'll send you my list in e-mail.
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