Jeff Macfee

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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Well everyone else does it (said with whine…) * Revise The Final Tasting * Revise Faster * Finish 1st draft of Nine Tenths * At long last go back to the bazillionth draft of Moneymaker. Really it’s the last one I’m dying to do. After not touching Moneymaker for almost a year I’m ready to [...]

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A third iPhone? Really? I am a bit of a Mac tool, and I’ve completely eradicated Windows from my house. I’m still proud of that, and I miss it not at all. I’ve had markedly fewer crashes on my last two Mac laptops than any PC that preceded them. But. But my iPhone, which I [...]

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Man, it’s nearly been a year. Nearly a year since VPXII. Now a whole new crop of aspiring writers are getting all excited about going to VPXII…I. I am now an oldster. Those guys from the last class–won’t they shut up already? How quickly it all happened. I wish I had stories of novels published [...]

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* The dogs are howling something fierce. Not my dogs, as I have a cat. Good god–what if the cat is howling? * My family dynamic may be changing. Read into that what you will. Some of you know what I’m talking about (Internets, I’m looking at you). * I achieved my 35th story rejection [...]

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