All right, it's time to get this blog resurrected again.
Six months [or more] between updates is ridiculous. I'd love to say that it's due to being hugely busy with a variety of things offline, but it's mostly been a decided lack of inspiration. And that's just sad. My fannish works are basically thriving, but my professional portfolio is woefully lacking. Let's try to change that this year, shall we?
So I
finally heard back with regard to the article I'd submitted to them back in June. Not so surprisingly, it was rejected, though they did say they'd be happy to consider work from me in the future. What bothers me about this situation is that they stated a lack of staff for giving feedback on what they liked/didn't like about the article. This wouldn't be bad except that in the next sentence, they stated that an editor basically made these notes. If the editor made the notes, they should be able to send them along. Without feedback, how am I to know what to change to make this article more advantageous to them, or what other kind of article I could write to work for them?
This situation kind of soured me to this particular publication. I'm not so thin-skinned as to take the rejection itself personally. I knew there was a good chance of it. I'm more annoyed by the lack of professionalism involved. I understand that publications can get swamped by submissions, but when 6-8 weeks turns into over 4 months without any communication and then a basic rejection with no suggestions for what did/didn't work, I get a little annoyed.
And I quite probably got put off toward doing anything of a publishable variety because of that. But it's time to stop that sort of thing. It's a new year and I'd like to get something published this year. I'm still looking at my options and will start submitting when I can.
In other news, I've begun to do some work over at Amazon's Mechanical Turk. I slacked off a bit, but 2016 will see me doing some more of that to help get some income into the house.
I'm also looking into the basics of a Patreon account, but I'm kind of floundering there. Perhaps this will be the year that I get more work done on that project.
Until next time...
Sadie
