{"id":22909,"date":"2016-12-29T22:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=22909"},"modified":"2016-12-29T22:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:57:40","slug":"analog-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/29\/analog-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog<\/em>, at last"},"content":{"rendered":"

My novella “After the Harvest, Before the Fall” is in the January\/February 2017 issue of Analog<\/em>, which went on sale December 20th, and though I took note of that event over on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>, I made no mention of it here, because I thought I’d said everything I want to say back when I’d made the sale, which was 44 years in coming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apparently not.<\/p>\n

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Holding the issue in my hands, peeling back the cover, and seeing my name at last on the Table of Contents, I wondered … what would 17-year-old me have felt if given a peek into the future, and allowed to peer over my shoulder at his name there?<\/p>\n

I suspect he would have said something like, “What took took so long, old man?”<\/p>\n

It’s not that I was an impatient when I was a teenager writing my first stories, for even then I did not argue with the judgement of editors, and knew things would take the time they needed to take. I believe rather, that he, looking ahead to me, looking back at him, would have laid the responsibility entirely on us. <\/p>\n

Why didn’t we write more? Why didn’t we submit more? If only we had, surely this meaningful publication would have occurred sooner.<\/p>\n

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As I consider how I might have responded to the younger me, I think I’d have said something like—<\/p>\n

Well, yes … I could have written more, submitted more, but only if I hadn’t been busy living. And if I hadn’t been busy living, I’d probably never have learned the things I needed to know to write the story which eventually did<\/em> sell, so while we, together, might have written more words, more stories, we might have done so without ever having written the one good enough to crack Analog<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’d like to think the me of then and the me of now would have reached an understanding.<\/p>\n

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Whether or not we would have doesn’t change the fact that as I held the issue in my hands and read my own words set in the Analog<\/em> typeface while inhaling the aroma of that Analog<\/em> paper, I was smiling the entire time.<\/p>\n

Knowing that though it took me 44 years to make this sale, it took only 10 months for me to make a second Analog<\/em> sale, of a story which I hope you’ll be able to read not too long from now, why, that made me smile all the more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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