8:30 PM
Well, bad news and good news.

The bad news: I just heard back from the editor, and my story got bounced from the anthology for which it was written. The good news: it was because the editor immediately spotted the problems I knew the story still had--so at least I'm aware of the flaws in my work, which I consider a good thing.

There's no time for a redraft before the book goes to press, and it was written specifically to the constraints of the anthology, so there's no secondary market. But learning something from the process and keeping up the momentum of writing...hopefully I can at least walk away with that.

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