Sit Rep

I've been busy with work, but I've managed to send out two stories today (after more rounds of periodic revisions than I'd like to count).

I've sent "The Automatic Pen" to the Writers of the Future Contest and "Ra-Gho-Zu" to Analog.

With the help of different readers from different sources, I made some changes to "Automtic Pen" to address a few logic issues and considered changing the title but kept it. Hopefully, it'll go farther than the Semi-Finals, where "Ra-Gho-Zu" placed.

Speaking of which, I made some editing changes to "Ra-Gho-Zu," I was going to fire it off to Analog, then held it for the Federations anthology, where it got rejected. I was gonna fire it off to Analog a few weeks ago, then got a suggestion to cut short the beginning (which the WOTF judge thought was perfectly fine) and the story is actually faster paced. In hindsight, the Federations rejection helped spur the new draft. The version I sent to the anthology was the one I was going to send to Analog at first. Hopefully, the Analog editorial staff will like the newest draft.

It's all in the laps of the gods now.

I must eke through script rewrites now, when I'm not exhausted by work.

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