Well... it's done. Today, I submitted my first short story, "In Morte, Omnia" to my first professional market, Clarksworld Magazine.  This process took weeks,  I don't even know how long anymore, I'll have to look it up in my Writing Journal!  Five drafts total, four wonderful betas, 3200 words (rounded up to the nearest hundred).  Every spare moment of many days spent researching possible literary markets, only to then remember the SFWA and find a whole new list of membership-qualifying ... View Post