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Duotrope's Digest, possibly one of the single most useful market search engines for writers, is going basically paid only as of January 1.

I don't blame them for this, honestly, because (a) Capitalism and (b) they're bleeding money. It takes time and cash to run a site like that. And I'll subscribe on a month by month basis, no doubt, because I can't see not using it anymore. Hell, if I got "serious" about this business, I could write it off on my taxes, because writers can do that.

But what this means in practical terms for me is that I'll probably either run my subs in batches every other month, or get a list going so that I know where stuff should be going next. I used to do that anyway and still do, in a desultory fashion, on my newer stuff. I guess I'll just have to get more dedicated about that going forward.

I'm calling this outline...

DONE. Other than the fact that I need names for these characters, which I will ruminate upon.

Understand that this "outline" (such as it is) is around five hundred words all by itself--and it's bare bones. I'm just going to pants the rest of the story come January and see what happens.

And now I'm going to poke the plot bunny hutch and see what else hops out.

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Yeah, I'm going to rant. And I'm going to say some insensitive things about a dude who committed suicide ( behind the cut. )

And outline #2...

Is in the can. Mostly. I may tweak it and add a couple more concrete characters to it besides the protag and the Thing, because it needs that (a Sidekick! That will be fun), but that won't take long at all.

Go, me, I guess? This is going a lot faster than I expected. The more you do it, the easier it gets.

Tomorrow, I will start on outline #3. I want to do something with my spaceship crew again. And, you know, considering the fact that it looks like I'm going to have tons of time before I start this massive, scary project, maybe I'll go back to Ghost Ship and just... fix it and make it stop sucking. I think I'll have at least two weeks to do that, so even if I don't fix it all the way I'll still manage to fix a good chunk of it. Not only that, but it will give me good practice and discipline for the NaNo thing. If I can bang out a good thousand words a day for three days on it, that should actually fix it nicely, at least the next draft.

It's good to be doing this again.