Come home to find two wonderful surprises today.  My contest story as Les earned me my first erroneous age rejection.  Resubmitted with an eyeroll, hoping it might come out at midnight by some stroke of luck.  If it doesn’t make it out until 6 am or later… Ugh…

On top of that, my latest over at SOL is sputtering, which has become a trend.  The same story is performing like gangbusters at Lit.

To be honest, pushing the submit button at SOL is beginning to feel like tossing words into the void.  If the trend continues, I’m leaning more and more toward not wasting the effort.  The numbers have been steadily descending for a while, and the feedback is almost non-existant, even when a story does reasonably well.

We’ll see how Stocking Stuffer does there after it’s had over the weekend at Lit.  If a hotbutton fetish like that tanks…  One more nail in the coffin.

That’s assuming it does as well as I’m expecting at Lit.

Even if I decide to close up shop at SOL, I’ll finish SOTM there.  Other new stories may not get posted, though.  That includes new stories in series like Magic of the Wood, since they’re all self-contained.  Just thought I’d put out a heads up.

Off tomorrow.  The Thanksgiving rush seems to be tapering off, so I’m hoping for a lighter week next week after my three day weekend.  Maybe I’ll be back in a mental state capable of writing again.  This has just been a bad week.

I’m going to vegetate for a little while, see if the young one will wind down, and maybe give a shot at writing, since this was a much slower day, and I already know I can get some sleep during the day tomorrow.  Less pressure to force myself to go to bed.