Ahoy, me maties! Cap’n Adams decided that it were a good idear to give ye lot o’ scurvy dogs a wee bit more time to get yer stories in ta him. Bein’ the benevolent cap’n he is, he’s givin’ ye till February 28th ta submit to Shimmer. But not a moment longer, or he’ll keel-haul ya.
Any questions? Arrrr!
Now I have no excuses.
No. No, you don’t. Get to it matey.
Oh, good, because I was going to do something incredibly stupid and attempt to write a pirate story in one day and then read it tomorrow night at Diet Soap before sending it off.
(Translation: key word being “attempt,” as in I’d be going in knowing full well I’d probably fail and collapse into bed at about 4 am tonight.)
Arrr! Ye can still do that, but then take yer time revisin’ it.
Ah, trevor me thimbles. Now I con a’least git ma pirate lingo up to scratch.
Rooaar?
Dammit!
Fortunately, I have a pirate filter attached to this thread, so you can type in plain English and it will translate to pirate-speech.
Arrr! Bilge the capstan and unfurl the quarterdeck!
That’s good news! I’ve got a draft in the works, but it wasn’t going to be done by the end of this month.
If you want yet another writing opportunity, check out Machine of Death (deadline 3/31).
Not enough decent subs?
Actually, no. JJA says he could fill the issue with what we have. But we had agreed to a do a cross-promotional thing with Nightshade’s Pirate Anthology and got word that they wouldn’t be finished looking at their submissions until the 15th of February. Our close date was supposed to be after theirs.