...I now have not one, not
two but three (count 'em!) rejection slips to my name. Apparently
I'm not having much luck finding a publication that needs a story
featuring a wisecracking penguin with a Bronx accent and its eyes
scratched out. Go figure.
Still, I shall continue
to persevere. There's always a chance that somebody, somewhere, is
desperate for more penguin-based fiction. And since the alternative
is to post it here, to be read by maybe three people, it's not like
I'm missing out on much. (The three of you who would have read it
may feel differently, of course...).
In the meantime, when
I'm not sending that one back out to be rejected somewhere else, I'm
working on other things. The novel continues to be very slowly
edited, there's another short story gradually coming together, and
I'm currently obsessing over a project that I already know won't go
anywhere (as opposed to merely suspecting such things).
The idea in question,
unfortunately, is one of those that really needs to be a comic.
Prose simply wouldn't do it justice; it needs big, bold visuals to
tell the story properly. And I can't do big, bold visuals. If I try
really, really hard, I can produce something that's about
half-decent, but it's just not worth it for the amount of stress and
effort it requires. And while I know one or two people who can draw,
I doubt any of them would be interested in taking on a project of
this magnitude with no guarantee that it would ever be seen by more
than three people (hi, three people! I love you!).
I'll have to work on it
regardless, though. I need to get it out of my head and pinned down
on a page before I can move on to something else.
And if you know anyone
who might fancy drawing 120 pages of quirky, grim superhero stuff
just for the lulz, do send them my way.
