Not setting a precedent, but...

[mrissa]

I've been thinking about using this lj for something besides just commenting on other people's ljs. I'm not sure how useful that would be, though. I only friended people for the first time today, and only people who already friended me. (Hi!)

Most of my babbling will still go on Novel Gazing; I like it over there and see no reason to change. But I'm thinking I might put little tidbits like story sales here. Would you read it if I did? Or is the current setup fine and dandy?

Comments

[gaaneden.livejournal.com]

That would be great! I'd love to see your announcements here.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Yes! I'd love to see stats--sales or rejections or what have you. That was the one thing really missing from when I was getting up the gumption to submit stories, was "not enough people out there documenting sales" (and rejections).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. I get rejected enough that I'm not sure if I want to spam people's friends pages with the news. I'll think about it, maybe on a weekly basis or something manageable like that. I could send you a copy of my rejections-per-month graph if you're interested. It's very purty. I also have one of books we own by year of publication. You can take the girl out of the lab....

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Well, strangely, I *would* like to see the rejection graph. Though I feel like I've done the hardest part (hit my first full year of serious submitting, with all the attendant mistakes and idiocies), so I don't need it.

The early drive was from wondering: "am I submitting enough? to the right places? is this level of rejection normal? when, in the grand spectrum of trying, did other people get their first acceptance? first pro-sale?" and so forth. Of course, now I've gotten better at reading between the lines of bibliographies and blogs, and also, have my own experiences.

Well, actually, first eleven months. Looks like April 9th is the real day. But I've got the forward momentum now, so we'll call it a year. :)

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Personally, I love people's rejection notices, but that's just because I like to keep track of how long things stay at certain markets and all sorts of other technically useless things that appeal to my statistian side. (a shameful, shameful side of me that's from the three years I spent working with stats and their handlers.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, I do try to remember to log my response times at the Black Hole.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Yeah: drop a line, here, too.

The once a week stats thing sounds OK.

Ashamed to say that I don't log rejections the way I used to: I record 'em in Sonar, for my own benefit, but then mostly ignore them. Doesn't do anyone else any good-- and I can't keep track of when and where I sent what and how long it's been without the aid of software ("Oh, it's been a year? Huh. Maybe I better query...")