I ended March with a vacation, and when I came back, the vacation from writing was over. I dove right into East of Yesterday, and blew past my 25,000 word hurdle. I'm now at 27,000 words, and I'm hopefully gathering momentum again.
I decided to drop an interracial romance storyline for two reasons: the romance wasn't working in my mind and the story screeched to a halt when I started it. I'm just going to continue to write my original concept and see where it takes me. This is a lot the way I wrote Starcaster/A Spy and a Lady -- I just came up with a concept and hung on while it took me on a wild ride.
I temporarily trunked my short story, "Under Observation" while I purchased some of the better online semipro zines in order to get an idea of what they like. And lo and behold, I found another potential market for "Under Observation". I also failed to mention that an online pro zine recently rejected it while saying they "enjoyed reading it but after careful consideration have decided that we cannot use it at this time." It looked like a form rejection, but would they say they enjoyed reading every story? So maybe someone will want it.
I'm sorry this blog has been so boring lately!
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Wow. That's a good re-start to writing. i'm glad it's working so well for you. {SMILE}
ReplyDeleteI'm still working on getting my writing going again. I'll see what happens. {Smile}
Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
Don't work on doing it! Just do it!! :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I've started revising a story that shows promise again. I hope to get it into condition to start shopping around soon. {cross fingers hopefully, Smile}
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