Jeff Macfee

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The making of stuffz

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments

I love that I work at a place that produces something. And not a pants something, or a shirt something, at least not in the generic sense. Games. Music. Characters. Story. Art.
Neat fun stuff.
There were sacrifices to get here, but it’s been so worth it. It reminds me why I enjoy writing, and gets me [...]

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The yips

October 29th, 2009 · No Comments

For 18 months I submitted at least one short story to at least one publication. And then, in July, something broke.
Don’t know what, but it broke good. Short stories weren’t working. I was sick of all my work, especially the short cutesy work. I plowed back into my novel, but I’d been doing novel work [...]

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Not a bad year

October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Things are looking up over here.
I have some family additions on the way, and they appear happy and healthy.
I sold a non-fiction piece, which in the grand pantheon of writerly achievement may be small, but for me looms quite large.
I have a professional change coming up that I’m hugely excited about, and I think will [...]

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Good news coming?

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments

I think so.
No I have not sold a story. Different life area entirely. But still exciting.

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Pade

September 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I have a spreadsheet I use to track the status of all my submissions. To date it’s been easy to fill out the columns, because they’re always the same columns. Date Submitted, Story/Piece Title, Submitted to, Response. And Response is always the same.
Until this last week. Response=Accept. Wohoo!
And I got to fill out [...]

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