Wow, but I'm sick of that...

Seems like whenever a Christian stands up on their hind legs and says "I'm not going to see this movie/read this book/partake in this particular form of entertainment because it attacks my faith," some friggin' idiot spouts back with "Well, your faith must be pretty weak if it's threatened by entertainment."

Yeah, no. That's not it at all. But that's a nice way to attack my faith further. Bravo. *golf clap*

I have limited entertainment dollars. We all do, right? I am not entertained by movies, books, and music that attack my faith. I'm actively repelled by them, in fact. Therefore, spending those limited entertainment dollars on things I don't find entertaining is stupid. I didn't get where I am financially by being stupid with my money. I don't go see Adam Sandler movies either. Not because I'm "threatened" by him, but because I find him incredibly annoying and dreadfully unfunny.

I would really love to see this ridiculous argument laid to rest once and for all.

This post brought to you by the comments on a review for "Prometheus." Jury's still out as to whether I'm seeing it or not. I will wait for a review from someone I actually trust before committing to go.

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I just checked Duotrope's for markets for Won His Soul. I probably shouldn't have.

Turns out that markets for fantasy works over 15,000 words long are thin on the ground. I knew this, of course. I didn't realize how thin on the ground they were, though.

Three. Three pro-paying markets. Writers of the Future, which I'd planned on sending it to first anyway. F&SF, which I would love to break into and has actually read a few of my last subs to them all the way to the end, but is a snail mail sub. You know how many pages this is going to be, properly formatted? UGH. And Tor.com, which takes forever and a day to get back to you.

Well. I have hopes for this one. We'll see if it goes anywhere, I guess. I've had three betas look it over and incorporated (some of) their suggestions. It's as edited as I can get it for now, and I'm meeting my Writing Buddy this weekend. Once I incorporate the changes he suggests, I'm sending it to WotF.

...I should probably send him the updated file.