All the Flies You can Eat

A short-short story

Got a story out. Still a bit of a struggle but I'm just going to have to accept that I am going to be rusty until I start writing regularly.

Have picked tomorrow's story and I have all day to work on it. Don't think it needs a lot of revision but it might.

Gonna go spend an hour on the novel and then read stories for a contest I'm helping judge.

Writing was a bit of a struggle but it's all my doing. Or really, not doing.

I have not written consistently in years.  I tried working on two different pieces but ugh, could not connect with the characters and tell their tales.

Worked on the novel, but I've got to do some reading to do to fill in some gaps, plus there are nine characters, though five will take secondary status.  I feel lost and overwhelmed but I'm going to reopen that file tomorrow and days after.

Sent a story out. One that had been completed and previously sent out and sent back. Not the one I'd hoped to send out -- but still.

Writing quote

As I entered the writing life, it entered me.

--Susan M. Tiberghien

Day 1

Got a story off.

One a day

I am going to send a story out every day in January.  I've picked the ones that need the least research. They are also mainly flash or micro pieces.

Revise and send out. Repeat.

Hopefully 'get published happens somewhere in the process in the process.

My wacky little tale got accepted

Yay!

"All the Flies You Can Eat" is upcoming in the 'In Winter' issue from The Wild Word.

Continuing with the NANOWRIMO novel, which I didn't finish in November 'cause I was making bears 'cause that paid.

Sent out this wacky piece I wrote years ago. In rejecting it (also years ago), an editor made  some comments that I took as truth. I pulled it off that pile of stories (I chose 45 that I'm going to revise and send out first) with the intent of revising but I read it and decided that editor was wrong.

An acceptance from Pure Slush for another anthology.  Yay! I love the editor, Matt Potter! 

A free writer's organizer

Wrote an essay and sent it off

Scary because most things I've been submitting have been coming back. 

I'm excited to see if it makes the cut.

Got another to go revise.