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Got yet another short-story rejection this morning.

Even though I just sent the story back out to another market, I still feel like curling up and sobbing for a bit. Thinking thoughts like "who am i kidding?" and "why do i bother?"

I know it'll pass. Still, hard to feel motivated to do anything, let alone focus on the (very nice) day job that I should be more grateful for.

Notes from Day Two of WonderCon 2018: http://mindbat.com/2018/03/27/wondercon-2018-day-two/
WonderCon 2018 Day Two

Spent most of my second day at WonderCon in the Writers Coffeehouse. Caught a few writing panels after. Notes below! Writers Coffeehouse hosted by the writer Peter Clines rule one: there’s always e…

WonderCon was a blast!

Here's my notes from Day One: http://mindbat.com/2018/03/26/wondercon-2018-notes-from-day-one/

WonderCon 2018: Notes From Day One

WonderCon 2018 was amazing! So much more relaxed than Comic-Con. I’ll do a summary post about the Con later this week, but I wanted to get my notes from Day One up first thing :) Note: Some o…

Just got home from WonderCon.

What an amazing convention: relaxed, friendly, and full of new friends, new stories and new sources of advice.

Definitely going back next year, hopefully for all three days.

#introduction :wave: I'm apg on github/gitlab, apgwoz on the bird service, and some combination of apg or apgwoz pretty much everywhere else on the internet.

I begrudgingly write #go to work on metrics and operations for a popular PaaS, and tend to lean towards #racket and "not go" for personal projects, which I don't have enough time to complete.

I bounce between #freebsd and #openbsd on my personal machine, which I'm usually too tired to use by the time I'm done "computing" for the day.

View from the train through Encinitas, CA
https://mastodon.cloud/media/rlJiIZDXdBJ8v5zS_rk

Heading up to Wondercon by train!

...I'm way too excited about this. But I can't help it :)

We have a lot of veterans here on Mastodon, you'll get the hang of the memes eventually. A ton of us joined in April last year. It's been a crazy roller-coaster year.

We do welcome you with open arms, just take notice of your instance rules which can be found at your instance.domain/about/more usually!

If the rules do not apply to you, or you see someone else seeming unaware of them, do report! Admins and moderators are here to help!

Writers: have you ever accidentally addressed real world folk who aren't your readers in the slang you invented for your WIP?

#introductions

Hey peeps, I'm Stu and I run straylight.expectnomore.net. It's a small instance where I constantly try to cajole old internet friends into joining, but it's also open to anyone looking for a home online.

I post mostly about my pets, music, game development, and home improvement. And also usually links to weird shit.