Holy crap, squiders. May was one disaster after another. (And it’s lingering–my grandmother is in the hospital and it could be really bad.)
But, on the other hand, I actually sold two short stories. Hooray! Vindication!
Now I only have three stories in rotation, though. Time to write some more, I guess. Will need to ponder when/how the best way to do that is. Look for anthology calls? Troll my inspiration list?
I’m actually thinking about maybe trying my hand at some mystery short stories. Publish under a penname, give myself some credentials for when I get my cozy mystery series ready to go.
Should at least do some fantasy ones. All the ones that are left are horror. Maybe scifi. Maybe do a little of everything.
The first part of my serial that I wrote in April goes live today (not yet, because the news about my grandmother has derailed the last few steps on that, but check Turtleduck Press later this evening or tomorrow morning once I get my act together. It’s called Across Worlds With You.) so that’s also fun.
And we’re in chapter 3 of the Book 1 rewrite. Cpt 3 is going pretty well. I think I’ll give Cpts 1/2 to my critique group this month and maybe also run it through the critique marathon, which starts next week. The critique marathon people have seen the beginning of this story a couple of times so they can at least tell me if it’s getting better or not. Hopefully.
So. June.
Summer is always interesting when the small, mobile ones are out of school. May try to get up early and work before they wake up, because it’s very hard to concentrate around them, even if they’re doing their own thing. Constant interruptions.
But the plan is to continue the rewrite (and deal with feedback as we get it), poke SkillShare (I was planning on reposting the classes in May but, you know, May), and generally see how things are going. Maybe if things are going well I’ll add in some short story poking too. Options, options.
Will also need to ponder our summer series for the year and get that going soon too. If you have thoughts (something specific, or reading vs writing related), let me know! If you’ve been here for a while you know I love to absorb random knowledge and regurgitate it whenever possible, so I’m open to pretty much whatever would be helpful.
Fingers crossed that the life front for June is better! (The writing/publishing front for May was quite nice, no complaints there except I could have used more writing time.) Requests for the Summer Series? Random thoughts?
See you next week!
OH! I forgot. Hidden Worlds is part of the Adventure of a Lifetime bundle at Prolific Works this month! Swing over there to get a copy for free!
