{"id":3747,"date":"2010-02-06T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T04:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2010-02-06T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T04:35:10","slug":"nomaggedon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"Nomaggedon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I edited a few stories for Kaleidotrope<\/a>‘s next issue today, thankfully none requiring too many rewrites. As a general rule, I don’t accept stories that need extensive revisions — if it feels like a first draft, I’ll let the author know, politely reject the story, and hope they’ll submit again when it’s rewritten. But even the best story can use a good copyedit and proofreading. Otherwise, I’m not doing my job, and then why am I even bothering? I’m actually pretty booked with material for the next few issues, with some stories accepted a while ago that may be pushed back until October. If I had the time, money, and resources, I might consider putting out a third issue a year.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, it was a pretty uneventful day. Really cold, though the so-called Snowmageddon<\/a> passed us by almost entirely, except for a very light dusting before noon. You almost wouldn’t know it had snowed at all, looking out the window now. It’s amazing to see just how much snow landed only a few miles away. My sister in Maryland got about two feet, so it’s probably good we picked last week, despite the bad weather then, to visit for her birthday. <\/p>\n

This evening, I watched The Hurt Locker<\/a>. I don’t know that it was the best movie of 2009, but I enjoyed it so much more than Avatar<\/i>, the other top favorite for this year’s Oscar. It’s a pretty intense movie (something I don’t think Avatar<\/i> ever really is), and a dark character study. I’d definitely recommend it.<\/p>\n

And that, as they say, is that.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I edited a few stories for Kaleidotrope‘s next issue today, thankfully none requiring too many rewrites. As a general rule, I don’t accept stories that need extensive revisions — if it feels like a first draft, I’ll let the author know, politely reject the story, and hope they’ll submit again when it’s rewritten. But even … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14,28,114],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}