http://www.sffworld.com/forums/blog.php?21313-Andr01d en Wed, 22 May 2013 18:07:50 GMT vBulletin 25 http://www.sffworld.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.sffworld.com/forums/blog.php?21313-Andr01d http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?6033-Mag-Submissions Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:43:13 GMT So, I have been ever so productive. As long as I can keep this up it will, I hope, only be a matter of time before I get accepted somewhere. I have submitted two more stories, one to Lightspeed mag and one to Strange Horizons. I hope they can reply quickly with their rejections so that I can send... So, I have been ever so productive.
As long as I can keep this up it will, I hope, only be a matter of time before I get accepted somewhere.
I have submitted two more stories, one to Lightspeed mag and one to Strange Horizons. I hope they can reply quickly with their rejections so that I can send both those stories elsewhere. I do not believe that they will accept either of my stories - I wish to grow my collection of rejections. Once it becomes ordinary I will no longer feel that hope.
Luckily I can rest easy know that I am a writer acquired taste - that is what I tell myself anyways. You know, whatever helps ya sleep at night. But somewhere I will find my niche, I know I will. I know I will because most of what I read in these magazines I am not so interested in. I don't desire to write a story for the sake of a story. I wish to write meaning. Ideas. Questions that are relevant to our time. Make the read think as they process my words not glaze over the ideas with dull wandering thoughts. No. Sci-fi and fantasy can be a platform for those who want to think outside of what is possible and imagine the impossible; only like this can we create something truly new, unique, all our own. Lets put aside the cliches and find the life that lives outside ourselves and ask the questions or say the things that need to be said to inspire people think differently. Because if we can think differently we can create differently.
That is what I aim to do.

William Xander. ]]> Andr01d http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?6033-Mag-Submissions http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?5837-Cool-Didn-t-know-my-account-even-came-with-a-blog Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:16:25 GMT Well this is cool. Hello all and Welcom to my SSFworld blog. I was unaware that I had a blog here but now that I know I will try to keep it up to date with what I am doing with my writing. I am in the process of submitting at least one short storie a week to a speculative fiction magazine. This... Well this is cool.
Hello all and Welcom to my SSFworld blog. I was unaware that I had a blog here but now that I know I will try to keep it up to date with what I am doing with my writing.
I am in the process of submitting at least one short storie a week to a speculative fiction magazine. This week I have sent out stories to two mags. The first being Clarksworld which I was swiftly rejected by, and the second being Catesbury which is more like a written version of The Twilight Zone. All my rejections I tack up on my bedroom wall. I have a small collection, not having submitted much but am looking forward to growing my collection of rejections. It is a great practice and is a nice way to show that you are at least getting your work out there.
I also run a wordpress blog that is mainly devoted to Poetry as well as publizing my published book The Sparrow and Other Works by William Xander.
check out my wordpress blog at

www.williamxander.wordpress.com

Well I'll let you know what else I am working on as time passes. As well as what mags I am submitting to. Hopefully I'll have a winning ticket at some point and actually get accepted, but I shouldn't get my hopes up.
Cheers.
Andr01d. ]]> Andr01d http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?5837-Cool-Didn-t-know-my-account-even-came-with-a-blog