From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 31, 2014 11:34:51 AM UTC+1, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
      
   > I'm so bad at that. I have about 30 short stories in my folder to    
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   > submit. I'll sometimes spend a couple of days sending them all out and    
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   > then rest on my laurels for a few months. My current excuse is that I'm    
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   > under cointract for three novels, but in truth, even when I wasn't I was    
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   > always really bad at submitting. I'm surprised I ever managed to sell    
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   > even 15 stories over the years.   
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   That's fifteen more than me! I don't write them very often because they are so   
   uneconomical with ideas. Mostly when I get something it's a first chapter and   
   I've never really tried to rework it into a short. I think maybe it takes me   
   longer than it    
   should for the idea to become obvious and by then its already written at novel   
   pace. Maybe I should do something with all the story starts that I've rejected   
   over the years. ( If I could remember where I put them)   
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   > My most recent is a reprint of 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance    
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   > Panda' in 'Futures 2' - but I didn't have to sub to that as it's a    
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   > best-of anthology from Nature's Futures, published by Nature and Tor.    
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   > Happily it just dropped into my lap!   
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   Yes I want to read that!   
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   Nicky   
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