A Sunday Short

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Annie Rayburn/Carol Burnside

Just dropping by to offer you a thought for the day that goes along with my “submit, submit, submit” slogan for 2008:

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist. ~ Issac Asimov

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Today’s Menu

Garden salad

Baked Basa w/lemon-herb seasoning

Steamed mussels w/a tomato-garlic-wine sauce

Fried, breaded okra

And – of course – sweet tea. 🙂

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>Saturday Stats

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Annie Rayburn/Carol Burnside

>I’m always reading blogs where they check the keywords stats to see what people have been googling in order to find them. They come up with some real humdingers. Some hilarious. Me? I get…oddball stuff, some of which makes no sense. See?

weird artwork – makes okay sense – it was a blog topic

walking with dinosaurs how long is show – I can’t remember – 2 hrs maybe?

biting time – Is there a specific time to bite? Vamps? Anyone?

how long does walking with dinosaurs last – Like I said, around 2 hrs.

analville – another blog topic

how long is walking with dinosaurs – Addressed that already, let’s move on.

rosie baxter – the heroine of the 1st book I wrote. Wonder if someone was looking for a real Rosie Baxter?

how many hours is walking with dinosaurs – Dude, you’re starting to annoy me.

weird tidbits – Check the archives. They’re around here somewhere.

long walknig 4 dinosaur – Illiterate much?

novella muscat canelli 2005 – A short wine book?

how long is walking with dinosaurs? – *sigh*

winfree what mattered most – Hey, Linda! Folks are googling you.

pseudonym melissa schroeder – Don’t think she has one. Mel is really Mel.

she made the arrest – Did she now?

See what I mean? And you wouldn’t believe how many more times the Walking With Dinosaurs thing popped up. This was but a smidge of the repeats. Guess my WWD post is high on the Google list. 🙂

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>Schedule Alterations or TGIF–not!

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Annie Rayburn/Carol Burnside

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Ever have an idea in your mind of just how your week will go and then nothing seems to happen that way? That’s this week. I have to keep reminding myself that I’m still getting things done, just different things than I’d planned.

For instance, I didn’t plan on any of the following:
__Receiving a quick rejection on the story submitted last week. (Very expected considering the odds, believe me!)
__An opportunity to submit a quick feature piece and submit it overnight
__To polish and flesh out a long forgotten short story and submit it
__Revising the query letter for the rejected story and getting it submitted to another publisher.

All that stuff takes time and I don’t have a lot of pages to show for this week. AND I still have to attend a GRW meeting as well as read and judge my 6 Golden Heart entries. Ack!

How did it get to be Friday already?

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