Week 6! Despite the 200 hundred boxes of Girl Scout cookies in my living room–that need a home that isn’t my living room–I had a very good writing week. Here’s what I did:
Writing:
- It Only Takes a Minute, 247 words, for the Flash Fiction Chronicles String of 10 contest
- The Weight of Secrets, short story of some length. I wrote it longhand and it’s still in my notebook, so I don’t know the exact word count.
Submitting:
- It Only Takes a Minute, since I wrote it for the contest, why not actually submit it too?
- The Madness in King’s End, to a local mystery contest. However, my story is probably more fantasy than mystery, so I’m not holding my breath on this one.
Rejections:
- None!
Acceptances:
- Payment, that even shorter (25 words) version of Cash or Check received an acceptance from Literary Juice for their Pulp Fiction section, where the story must be exactly 25 words with a one word title. (Now you know why I changed the title.) Oddly enough, it’s a story with a Girl Scout cookie theme.
Published:
- And, of course, The Burden of So Many Roses went live this week at Kazka Press. I am very pleased about this.
I also started an online class this week at The Loft Literary Center, Breaking the Unwritten Rules in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. I’m all about the rule breaking. The next couple of weeks are going to be very busy, so this Write 1/Sub 1 thing may be more of a challenge. It’s like a cliffhanger–stay tuned to see if I can make it all work.
Writing Wrongs 