I deserve a gold star, y'all.
Although I have the propensity to call myself a writer, I hadn't actually written anything to conclusion in the past year. Work got in the way, or whatever other excuse I found to not pursue what I intended to be my career.
Well. Over the course of the past month I've written a 25-page short story for a contest submission. I went through five distinct drafts and God knows how many different conclusions, but it's done and in the hands of the USPS.
I don't expect to win this contest. I did this submission as a deadline to get myself on a regular writing schedule. If I should win, of COURSE I'll be jumping up and down with glee and spending that $500 prize on a set of tires, but all the same....it feels good just to have a story out.
Tomorrow I'll start outlining another short story for a September 15 deadline. My end goal is after a year to have twelve really good pieces of short fiction that are submission-ready and to finish one of the four longer works I've had on the backburner for some time.
I really don't want to lock myself into a genre right now because (as you long-time readers know well) my mind jumps from one idea to the next and I don't want to feel obligated to stay in the same readership when I know I have great ideas in another. I don't, however, see myself writing steamy romance novel word-porn anytime soon, though.
*ramble ramble*
Right, so. Yay me!
Posted by Tiffany at July 28, 2005 10:12 PM | TrackBackWhat a great week for you so far! Are you going to publish any of your works to your site for your readers' consumption? I'd love to read anything you write. You could password protect it and only give the password out to your most loyal folks... I understand if you're nervous about sharing, though. Writing can be so personal. Yippee for Tiffany!
Posted by: Momotrips at July 29, 2005 01:14 AMYay!
Now you said that steamy romance porn won't be coming out any time soon. I assume that means it'll be coming out eventually?
Posted by: Jim at July 29, 2005 08:27 AMMomo', I'm not detached enough from the piece to know whether it sucks or not. I need to wait a week and then read it with fresh eyes....if it seems anything slightly better than sucktactular, I'll definitely post some snippits.
Jim - gotta pay the bills any way I can, huh? ;-) I'll probably recognize in a week that beggars can't be snobs.
Posted by: Tiffany at July 29, 2005 06:25 PMYay for getting yourself writing again. I know how hard that can be.
Posted by: Fraulein N at August 2, 2005 02:34 PM