One of my goals for the year was to write four polished short stories. To work towards that goal, I signed myself up for Duotrope a few months ago (I subscribed to them years ago, but ended up unsubscribed because they stopped accepting Paypal). My goal this time was to keep an eye out for markets that sounded interesting (and hopefully ACTUALLY submit something somewhere). I found a few markets that seemed to fit the bill at the beginning of the month. Well, the month is almost over, and yesterday I realized I had done no short story writing at all! So I took another look at the markets I was planning to write for, chose one, and wrote about 100 words of a story yesterday. They were crappy words, but they were words all the same.
Today I sat down and thought a bit more about the story (specifically the characters, but also the setting – this is not set in one of the worlds I built). Once that was done, I set to work revising the bit I had already written. Draft 2 is now over 700 words long, with things (obviously) fleshed out a lot better in this draft. I doubt it’s going to get much longer, so I’ll be editing and revising it over the next few days before hopefully submitting it by the end of the week. Wish me luck! 🙂
An Acquaintance with Letters 