Keeping Busy, Yes Indeed.

[mmerriam]

Apparently I still remember how to write a short story, because yesterday I sat down and ripped through 2000 words in a few hours, finishing a short story I had started back before I let Dark Water Blues and Rija's Tale take over my life. The story, about ghosts and cellphones and friendship and revenge, came in at 2500 words in the first draft. It still needs a title.

Since I'm not going to be starting a new novel this year (only revising a couple and getting others ready for submission) I've decided I'm going to take a page from the jaylake school of thought and try to write new pieces of short fiction every week for the rest of the year. It seems a bit daunting, but I have to remember that I'm a fairly quick writer. That said, this is an experiment, and if it fails, that does not mean I fail as a writer, it just means that particular pace doesn't work for me.

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Whatever it was the Reverend was doing inside the circle of cat toys, I haven't seen any obvious repercussions.

And now I need to do some reading and some journaling and start hunting down the paper trail of a pension fund I paid into long ago in preparation of a quest to see if there's any money there I should be receiving. Once finished with that, I'm making shrimp and chicken curry tonight. Sometime in the next day or two I'll be leaving a review of blackaire's novel, Night Life. And there's preparation for 4th Street Fantasy Convention, CONvergence, and MinnSpec still to do.

Comments

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

I am super supportive of your productivity.

[a-r-williams.livejournal.com]

Good Luck on the writing.

It might help to write a list of stories you want to write.

I know with your discipline, you'll cruise right along.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

There needs to be something like Ravelry (in which knitters/crocheters can post their projects, track progress, and share this with their friends) for writers.

Of course, we already have LJ for that, I guess.

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

Maybe she was conjuring writing mojo for you :)