I re-edited a short story last week before sending it off again. It's the third trip out into the wild for this particular story. It failed to win the competition I wrote it for in December '08. (At least I assume it did; there was no feedback.) Then it was turned down by a magazine.
It's much better now than it was either of those times though.
Out of curiosity I checked, and I've done 44 backups of that file. I'm a fanatical backer upper since the old days of dodgy floppies and "del *.*", so that represents about 14 or 15 fairly lengthy editing sessions. It's amazing but I'm still finding flaws. Most recently I eliminated several unwieldy paragraphs, replacing them with an elegant line or two. The story will be about four sentences long if I keep this up.
I sent it off to another competition. I'm looking forward to seeing how it does, but probably won't hear anything for at least three months. I also have two other stories out looking for a home, and I splashed out and entered the novel into the Debut Dagger. So things are ticking along.
The baby's only four months old; that's about all I can manage at the moment.
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