Tooting My Horn Tuesday: Rejection has its Perks

How funny is it that the one story I finally get accepted is about rejection?

Believe me, the irony smacked me upside the head. But not enough to knock the excitement out of me! My short (very short) story about Tracking Rejection will be in the Bylines Calendar for Writers, 2009! Fame! (Positive: My picture will be in the calendar! Negative: My picture will be in the calendar.) Fortune! (Okay, it’s five bucks. But I get a free calendar!) Publication! (A Calendar! That’s a first.)

I suppose I owe something to all that rejection that’s been piling up. After all, I wouldn’t have written that little calendar story otherwise. Now, what I need is a picture of a horn, but instead I’ll show you one of the pics I won’t be using in the calendar. Haven’t you always wondered what being smacked upside the head by rejection/acceptance looks like?

(And hey, it’s for a calendar!)

What Not to Do Wednesday: The One about Procrastinating

I know you’re going to think I made this whole thing up.

I wanted to wax poetic on that old writing bugaboo, procrastinating, and I had the perfect tie-in over at a new website called Uncliche. Namely, that you could learn a few lessons about procrastinating from reading other folks’ blog entries posted in the monthly contest, which, as you may have already guessed, was on the subject of procrastinating.

Ah-hem. Yesterday was the last day to read the procrastinating entries. BUT, you can read my entry on “pet peeves” if you hurry over to here, right now. Not to stack the deck or anything, but it’s one of those contests in which people vote for you. So if you come across a “poetic” post ranting about 10 Items or Less in the grocery store, you could give me a star or two.

But don’t dilly-dally, grasshopper. Voting on this topic ends March 10th.

And while I’m at it, grasshopper, just in case I missed the main point, I’ll add one more thing. Don’t put off your writing. The deadline may be sooner than you think!