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And I'm not sure how October will fare either. I'm off to the World Fantasy Convention at the end of the month being held in Calgary and using the month end long weekend to do it, which I've normally been using to finish these shorts each month.
Well, that's part of a writing life, having goals but willing to compromise and adjust those goals as needed when necessary. I still have hopes for a short story to be at least started in October, if not ended.
As for today, (I've got the day off) but I've got critiques to read for Tuesday. And then editing of that short story I finished in August. It's been a month since I finished it, so hopefully, I will be distanced enough to do a credible editing job on it without that flush from new writing passion coloring my vision of the crappy bits that needs serious re-working.
Most of all, I'm grateful for having a stress free day off work!
Shereen
- Mood:
grateful
I'm about 8 pages into it, probably get another 5 done today. But I've got Thursday and Friday off this week, so hopefully will finish it by next weekend.
But I'm going to take June off writing another short story. I've volunteered for the Victoria Tall Ships Festival, and between work, training and volunteer work, all my spare time will be pretty much used up for June.
Also, I could use a break. This has been quite grueling, doing one short story a month. Not the writing itself, but coming up with a new story idea each month that's worth writing about and pushing through it from start to finish.
I've noticed my voice for each of the short stories changed quite a bit.
By the way, I'm thoroughly enjoying the May one as it’s about trolls and I've never written about trolls. Before I ever started to write the story, I penned a poem called The Trolls' Lamentation. It was really bad, lol. But put me into the right mood for writing this story.
However, the reason I'm journaling is not to whine or go on about my writing workload, but to talk about the month long Deep Editing on line course I just finished with Margie Lawson.
I would definitely recommend this one. It had a lot of useful information that I never considered before, some I knew but took for granted and found the importance of the ideas reinforced.
The most important aspect I took away was the change to my expectations of myself as a writer. The course has made me want to strive to reach way higher than my comfort zone. As a result, I feel as if I'm a different writer now than before I signed up for the course.
As we progress on this journey to become better writers, there are years when we coast along, see a few spurts of growth, and then the rare leaps that take us to a new level.
I feel as if I just took one of those leaps.
The last leap was years ago when I went to a workshop given by Stella Cameron and her comment that a writer should take her time, slow down in the telling of the story, changed how I wrote.
If someone tells you people don't change, don't believe them. It happens.
Shereen, heading back to work
- Mood:
contemplative
