It is now the end of summer, some of the kids started back to school; some teachers go back this week to prep for their students to come back. More importantly (well, more pleasantly) summer has actually settled its warm hands upon us. We had a rather cool and wet July and early August, but the sunshine returned with a benign vengeance for the last week or so.
The writing front has been rather quiet, but I’ve been slowly chugging along. I have two goals I’m working on for the summer (which still continues for at least 30 more days…)
- Complete and submit the flash fiction Halloween story
- Complete Lesson 7 of HTRYN
I realized the anthology I wanted to submit a short story to is not from my typical genre. I had a mini crisis in the days leading up to the submission deadline to decide if I should submit with my name or use a different name. Ultimately, I decided on using my name. MJ Vergo is me as an author, and I’m ok if there are a few early stories out there in the world using MJ Vergo, even if they are not full of dragons and magic. I have yet to hear back, and I’m not anticipating to for a while yet. (subtext is I completed goal 1!)
Writing flash fiction was a lovely experience. I’m going to toy with it a little more in the coming weeks. Lets me have some creative time as I slog my way through the waist deep mud of the swamp of sadness alongside Atrau and Artax .
The revision (triage) is moving, albeit very slow. Like the mud in the swamp. I do think there is light at the end of the tunnel, as I am starting to understand the purpose of the lesson and how I make it work for my story. Also, I begin the spell book that is Wielding Arcana and much of the rules surrounding the magic. This was not part of the lesson initially, but I have found it was where my misunderstand came from. So while I still have not passed the 8% mark, it is valuable re-do work to do what I have captured now.
There likely won’t be much headway this week. The day job beckons and its siren song is strong. Well, the deadlines sing loud at least.
Onwards and Upwards.