Running late with this. My apologies. Unexpected dinner plans popped up yesterday, and I didn’t get home until late. Ain’t it the life, though?
Last week went fairly according to plan, such as it was. Work has proceeded on both the short story and novel fronts. My poor multitask-challenged brain is muddling along reasonably well.
After much note-taking, some semblance of a coherent plot is beginning to emerge on my Halloween story. I really have to start it soon if I want to finish it before Dragon*Con. But if I want to hit the ground running, I think more notes are needed. I’m not quite ready to start typing. This is partly attributable to the fact that the story seed is not my own; it was given to me by another participant in the contest. (That’s how this particular contest works; everyone works from seeds given to them by someone else.) I like the challenge of taking someone else’s idea and putting my own spin on it. But it takes a little longer than normal, I think, for the story to feel like it’s truly mine.
The Petra read-through has progressed through the end of the first act. Guess what? The opening is slow. Try not to hurt yourself as you collapse in shock. And it’s not like I didn’t expect it. I just picked a starting point, and off I went. But the end of the first act came off a little better than I thought, so that’s something. I’m mostly pleased with what I’ve read so far. I haven’t come across anything that doesn’t appear fixable. Synapses are firing; ideas about the rewrite are forming.
A couple of Write Club updates:
Personalized rejection from Clarkesworld, for “Fuel.” Response time, about a month and a half.
Tier one form reject from an agent for a novel query. Response time, three days.
Back to the front(s) . . .
