Welcome

Nifty helpful Thunderbird extension: SL8TR

Sick of magazines with "open" and "closed" periods? Never able to keep track, or able but never "with it" at the right time to submit during an open period? If they take email submissions, you're in luck! This extension to Thunderbird lets you schedule when to send an email--so you can prep the submission while you're "on" and let your computer take care of the rest:

This extension [...] extends [Thunderbird's] Send Later functionality by bringing up a scheduler for the time when the “Send Later” option is chosen (Ctrl+Shift+Enter is the shortcut). The extension saves the message to draft and monitors the messages in the draft folder, when the chosen time arrives it moves the message to unsent and sends unsent messages.

Okay, the real welcome:

Here you are, here we are, here they are. Is it not wonderful? Lots of room to put stuff. Maybe this should be a blog page or something. At the very least, though, I should say something about what this is going to be.

This is first and foremost to help you keep track of what you’ve sent where, and where you plan to send what next after the near-inevitable rejection. If you never have that problem, never fear! Well, beyond the rest of us writers tracking you down to blend your gray matter into a nice smoothie--you could also use the site to track where you intend to send something once you’re done writing it. Or done editing it, you poor, poor sod.

Then, this site might provide a nice way for you to keep track of what you should actually be editing, to get ready for submitting somewhere. Not sure how that’s going to work out, but it’s definitely an aim of my own.

And then, since you’re putting all this information here, it might as well be a good place to keep track of all the crits and or rejection letters you’ve gotten from various places--though I’m not sure I’ll actually let you upload scans of physical rejection letters. We’ll see. Really, that might be nice.

Lastly, for now, it might be a good way to share some of your trials and tribulations with other writers. Not sure how that will work out, either, but it’s a thought. Anyway, enough of writing this introduction. I have the rest of the website still to build--I’m just doing this in photoshop to start!