Did it.

[feuervogel]

I sent in my application for Viable Paradise. I sent the electronic version yesterday and put the hard copy in the mail today.

Now I wait until the end of June to find out whether they think I'm a good fit this time. Gah.

Comments

[ranyart]

Oof, that's a long time to wait. Bummer.

ALSO: I finished that one story from Substitution Cipher and by the end it was even more of a mess than I initially thought. At least I know I like the next one. :Y

[feuervogel]

Yeah, and I'm freaking out about whether there's a formatting error somewhere that disqualifies me for not following directions :P

Yeah, that story is kind of a mess. I liked the overall idea, but it was way too much and way too confusing. I spent half the time trying to figure out where the divergence was (I'm guessing the Louisiana Purchase never happened) and the other half playing Diversity Bingo.

[ranyart]

Somewhere in there, President Roosevelt mentions that the LP didn't happen.
I think "Diversity Bingo" is a good way to put it - a lot of the changes were interesting, but few were really adequately explained and there were so many of them that it felt like the author was just trying to shove as many into the story as possible, no matter how much sense they made or how much they added to the narrative.

[feuervogel]

That's the thing about anthologies: there's always one story that makes you wonder what the editor was thinking. Like, if that piece were a *novel*, it would be much better, because there's more room for exposition and explaining all the things. That's the hardest thing for me in writing short stories: not putting in All The Things because there isn't space.