why submissions? why not assertions?

...and right back in again. Oh, well. At least they have fabulous turnaround time. It was the better sort of rejection, fast and with feedback.

I'm mildly chagrined because this was what I thought of as my Story Most Likely to Succeed. But then, every editor wants something different. I would be the very devil to intrigue.

I know that everyone says this process is difficult, but I thought they meant for someone else.

(Not that it's actually difficult yet. That two submissions in a year is my own personal best record ever is not relevant, systematically speaking. My gentle trickle of one or two manuscripts every decade does have the virtue of not overwhelming a smallish market.)

It was interesting feedback. Not what I would have expected. I think I will treat this as a research opportunity and overcompensate wildly.

I might make a guess at what a revision according to the recommendations might look like, or I might just go over the story generally and then see what a market with a different flavour did with it.

Or just, you know, watch the second disc of Due South, which astonishingly was on the shelf at the Central library when I went in to pick up my heap of books on early Xtianity. (It's research. I'm not planning to become an early Xtian.)

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