opposite gender pov characters, and a new rejection

I’ve noticed that in my short fiction, I usually write from the POV of a male character. In fact, of the stories which I’ve sold, 12 of them have had male POV characters, 3 of them female  POV characters,  and 1 had a POV which shifted between a male and female character. That’s pretty overwhelming, but [...]

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it took 6000 words

..but I finished the short story on Thursday, the one I was trying to get done for last Monday. It’s a fantasy, with a first-person female narrator, and I have to say, it surprised me along the way with its developments, and I like the way it turned out. 
The delay was due partly to the excuses I kept making [...]

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a proofreader who proofreads herself…

… has a fool for an author. Isn’t that what they say?
On account of this I’m writing a second post today.
New story, written, finished, submitted. That’s SUB-MIT-TED, past tense. Gone, via e-mail to an editor. I swear, last night it looked perfect. Now, looking at it again I see three typos.
Instead of anyway, I have [...]

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