Short Story

So I finished a rough draft for a short story competition today. I haven't even looked at it yet, and I suspect that I will take one little paragraph and make the final story out of that.

I'm not really nervous about entering, although I feel like I should be. Maybe I will closer to the entry date. But I won't feel confident or nervous (or both) until I edit at least once.

I have three WiPs at the moment. But I'm impatient. In order to feel like I'm going somewhere, I want to start spreading my work. I've decided to enter into a few short story competitions this year.

I have toyed with the idea of posting short stories here once a week, or once a month. But a competition raises the stakes. I have to edit, and think about audience. Here on the blog, I could just give you guys the most random cobbling-together of ideas that you wouldn't know what you were looking at.

I may (I would like to) post my competition stories here. With the competition aspect, whether I make it through any round or not, it'll at least be closer to my best work.

Unlike my stream-of-conscious blog posts, written when I should've gone to bed an hour ago.

I can't believe -

I haven't written anything since Christmas. I also haven't read any of my favourite blogs since then (sorry).

So much has happened since then, in the world and in my own life. Therefore, there are a lot of things I could write about right now, like:

1) My overactive imagination that's been keeping me awake since NYE, despite the educated, rational person inside me debunking all my irrational qualms. The latest events in Japan and New Zealand (yeah, there was an earthquake there too, I didn't forget) haven't helped. Not to mention the massive moon that came around two nights ago, which is actually kinda cool.

2) I'm half way through Los Peregrinos, and have put it on hold for the next item on this list. And I'm 9000 words into a new project which I'm a little excited about.

3) I've spent the last five weeks traveling around the USA, visiting family and friends, and checking out cities I've never seen before. I decided this trip was reason enough to put on hold the WiP, and the relaxed attitude towards writing has caused me to start the new WiP (currently being called Apprentice Witch). So it's been an amazing experience, and has caused me to muse on different options for my future in terms of writing career and personally as well.

4) Now that I'm heading home, and arriving two days into the future (love time zones), I'm going to have to get a job, and possibly go house hunting. I've been staying with a friend in Sydney, and it's supposed to be temporary.

So, now that I've finished this post, I might just wander by and check out what's new with some of my favourite bloggers.