Do yourself another favor this week. Go read this story. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly is a fabulous novelette.
You can read online for free, or if you want to curl up with it (like I did), you can buy it for 99 cents.
Busy week this week with Girl Scout stuff. We took a tour of the local police station. One of the K9 dogs was on duty and we got to meet her. So cool. We also participated in a cookie rally, which was a … thing. No, it was fine, but it will be nice to sit and do a little editing today.
Otherwise, a submission, a few rejections (I was following up on outstanding 2014 submissions), and I finished a novelette.
Writing Work:
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Rejections:
Acceptances:
Publications:
Filed under Weekly Writing Check In, Writing
Need some free time? Need to learn how to steal time? Well, maybe I can help. Or not. What I can do is give you a free read.
This week, Just a Matter of Time will have a free run on Amazon, Monday through Friday. Grab it while you can! Want to know more? Keep reading:
Sadie Lin: High school junior Sadie is desperate–to maintain her GPA, to score high on the SATs, to see her dad return from Afghanistan. Time crawls and slip through her fingers all at once. She thinks it’s all in her head.
It’s not.
Gordon Bakersfield: Gordon–Sadie’s ninth grade epic crush–has plenty of time and knows where to get more. He knows someone has been stealing Sadie’s time. And while he’s not sure how to make it stop, he’s hoping to try. But can Sadie trust him?
Only time will tell.
Well, did I do it? I think so! Here’s my tally for the week.
Writing:
Here’s the crazy thing: I totally dreamed the start of the novelette. And in dream-like fashion, I was both writing the story and in the story. This never happens to me. I never dream stories. But since the universe offered up this gift, I decided to go for it and the whole thing tumbled out of me in a matter of three days, no planning, no outlining, nothing but words. It. Was. Glorious.
The flash I hope to cut down a bit, to about 1,000 words. I suspect a good 200 or more are throat-clearing anyway and this won’t be too tough.
Submitting:
And, thanks to that novelette, I’ve had this Pat Benatar classic running through my head all week. Now, it can run through yours. You can thank me later.
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