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Tonight I made a bold decision, that I'm hoping is not a huge mistake. I'm scrapping most of the submission work I've done this month and just giving myself some breathing room to focus on the deadlines I'd like to meet in September.
I've been working really hard on anthology submissions all through August, and so far I haven't made a single deadline. I started out behind this month because I took July off from submissions and ever since then I've just felt panicked. I've been finishing my rough drafts just a couple days before the deadlines and that's not leaving me enough time to comb through and edit and polish my submissions to a quality I feel comfortable submitting. So far I've let 4 deadlines come and go and all I've accomplished is stressing myself out. I have a handful of stories started for anthologies that are closing submissions on the 31st, and I'm putting a pin in every single one of them. Some look perfect for me. Some I want to be in desperately. I'm not letting those things be a factor. If I want to actually stand a hope at acceptance, I need to be able to stand behind my work and that's not going to happen with the stuff I've been doing lately. I have three submission leads coming up in September, and I'm going to focus all my attention on polishing up those. That's not a ridiculous number, and will hopefully be more manageable than what I've been trying to do this last month. Then with any luck I'll have some time to get back to basics, work on stories I feel like working on, and finishing my portfolio site. Thank you guys for reading and for bearing with me. I'm going through a rough patch, but I'll get back on the ball eventually. I hope.
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