So, this journal is toe-up.
And I've kind of forgotten to mention that. I am packing up (slowly)--hand-porting over all my entries, that is--and moving over to my digs at fairmer on LJ.
The reasons for this are many, but I will keep to the main ones:
1) Keeping two journals updated was eating into writing time.
2) I like the LJ community too much to move permanently over here,
3) and also my technorati ranking over there is higher. Like three times as high. And I wasn't even trying there.
4) The prestige (hahaha, like there's prestige) of having a journal hosted on my own website doesn't seem worth it in 2008. Maybe to some people it still is, but I'm so over that.
5) LJ isn't perfect, but neither are Wordpress or Movable Type.
6) Icons.
7) No comment spam.
8) Pretending that writing is segregated from the rest of my life? Is silly.
9) The white list makes it easy enough to find me.
There are, believe it or not, lots of other reasons, too.
So, fairmer will get a thorough overhaul to look a smidge more like this journal, and life will go on, and I'll forget there ever was such a thing as Movable Type. In about 977 entries, anyway...
(PS In my porting, I will maintain links to the comments, if anyone anywhere is even a teeny bit worried.)
So, what do you do with 62 sequential pics of a cat head-butting its owner?
I had one of those moments of clarity today about my submissions process: "You can't sell anything if you don't submit anything."
So. I spent my lunch hour digging out the things I'd been sitting on and sent them off. Including managing to send something to a market that had already rejected it. WHOOPS. But I withdrew it immediately and sent it on to a market that hadn't already seen my story.
That's the first time I've ever done that in 176 submissions, so you know? I don't feel completely terrible. I daresay that's quite possibly my first real submissions mistake. Objectively speaking.
I also queried on a rewrite request and discovered a new (Sniplets) podcast market and otherwise enjoyed the heck out of myself. Overall, this only resulted in a net gain of three submissions today, but it sure feels like lots more.