Writing Tales and Progress in the Real World

Wow, I've been busy. I'll just sum up everything from the past week, leaving more to elaborate on later.

On an old note, I found out that my professor is back in North America. No notice to me of course, I was left to find out by seeing him from a distance. I'm nearly set to turn in another draft, having worked on it more on Thursday. I just need a bit on the history of the research and I'll be set.

This past weekend was the Second Annual Cape Girardeau Comic Con. Since I'm friends with the promoter/organizer of the event, I was asked to do a few things to help out. No problem. The result: I get to meet guys like Roy Thomas and Denny O'Neil not only in person, but also by name.

I also got a chance to have dinner with several people on Saturday night. Jonnie Allan, creator/writer/publisher of Stykman was among them, and just a great person to have a conversation with. I'll probably end up communicating with him again in the future.

Denny O'Neil was also present at the dinner. The great thing about Denny is that he is such a fountain of interesting conversation, so much that, if the restaraunt stayed open long enough, we could have talked until dawn. It was a great, informative, enlightening conversation, one I'll never forget.

Finally, today, I got the most recent rejection for "The Golden Hollow" back in the mail. The best thing about this rejection is that I got story comments from two different editors along with it. As a whole, they liked the core idea of the story, but they didn't care for either 1) the resolution of the initial conflict or 2) the small amount of descriptive detail.