Daēvas find acceptance

[andrewmck]

I've just heard news from the Eneit Press camp that my story 'Diavadana' is one of the first two stories to be accepted for the forthcoming 'In Bad Dreams 2' anthology!

Here are the stats so far from markdeniz:
Stories received: 124
Stories accepted: 2 (by gerardbrennan and ashr501)
Stories held for second stage: 26
Rejections: 96

I'm pretty damn happy about this. I knew I had a pretty good story to tell, and thought I'd told it as best it could be, but I was still worried that it was too long. First draft was 15,000 words!

The CritMonsters group are to be thanked and commended for their excellent crits. They helped get rid of all the really rough edges and made me think a lot more about the story. Nathan Burrage then came along and tore right through the story. He made me really understand where the words were deficient in bringing across the ideas I needed to express. Due to their efforts the story lost a major character and over 3,500 words. It gained another 1,000 words here and there in building up the characters a lot more too, but all my readers felt a bit more character background and motive was necessary. All these readers helped make the story a much, much better story. I doubt it would have been accepted without their suggestions and advice. So, thanks guys and gals.

Thanks also (of course) to markdeniz and eneit for liking the story enough to accept it.

As you might guess, I'm pretty happy right now :)

Comments

[ashr501.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, I don't know if they're good stories or not. I just write 'em and don't expect much past getting to the end. And, thank you :)