JudyR, all very good suggestions. When I get jaded with the word processor, I go back to basics. I sharpen a whole quiverful of Dixon Ticonderoga #2s, move to a different location, and write on a yellow legal pad. It makes a nice change. When I was in high school (got led down the primrose path to writing aspirations by an English teacher who taught a Creative Writing class), I used to do most of my writing with a fountain pen. Can't buy a decent fountain pen anymore without mortgaging the ranch.

Barbara, first of all, congratulations!! You'd need to check the contract to be sure, but most magazines buy "First North Amercan Serial Rights" (assuming you're on this side of the pond), which means they buy the right to publish the piece for the first time. Other than that, you retain rights and can republish it whenever and wherever you want. The 2002 Writer's Market has a pretty good rundown in a chapter called "The Business of Writing" that contains info on all this stuff.

Don Firth