Submission Day and Deadlines

I keep records of everything I send out, have returned and accepted. Yesterday I was looking through those records and realised I had a number of pieces just sitting on the computer not doing anything so today I'm having a submission day. That means I'm looking at prospective markets, organising the files and sending out lots of emails.

I'm also working on two short pieces that have deadlines at the end of the week. One of the pieces I'm editing an old story that I had put aside because I liked it but it wasn't right for the thing I was working on at the time, now however I think it's right the market I have in mind so it's being polished and expanded.

In other news I had a hit early this week bringing my total up to 4 for the year. The piece accepted wont be out until 2009 but I'm still very happy and excited it's been accepted.

Right back to work I guess!

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Telly: None at the moment
Music: Pink Floyd
Choc/Yummy: None at the moment
Mood: Active, but with a pain in the neck
Main Writing: Nothing so far
Flash Writing: Nothing so far
Reading: Once a Rebel by Angela Ashton

The writing so far

Has been going pretty well. I've been continuing work on a piece that I've been working on for a little while, and it's finally coming together. I've got to the first 'heated' scene now so I'm taking it slightly slowly to make sure that I get it right. However today I started a fairy tale piece due to an idea that I've had in the past few days. Since I'm writing one piece in paper and one piece on the computer I'm finding I'm able to keep the two story lines separate, which is important because the last thing I want to happen is characters swapping story lines!

Anyway back to it.

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Telly: Britain's Funniest Comedy Characters
Choc/Yummy: None at the moment
Mood: Active
Main Writing: 1,400 today so far
Flash Writing: Nothing so far
Reading: Once a Rebel by Angela Ashton

Writing and Rain

Today's writing went well, at least it went forward rather than back which is always good. I had a plot issue which was causing me to ponder a bit on where to go next, now I've come to a solution which at least means I can move forward.

For most of the past year I've been writing all my work by hand first before transferring it onto the computer. I use the act of typing it up as a way to edit it before the piece is edited again, although this is sometimes a long winded way of working it presently works for me.

In the UK it was Mother's Day today, so I wish any mothers a Happy Mother's Day. The weather wasn't the best it's been pouring down all day and when it has stopped the wind has been blowing a gale. The poor neighbours cat has been visiting all day to get dry.

Now back to get a drink and finish my piece of very yummy chocolate cake.

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Telly: Presently Bottom 3 Live

Choc/Yummy: Yummy chocolate cake
Mood: Happy, but with a very sore throat
Main Writing: Just over 800 words
Flash Writing: Nothing so far
Reading: Once a Rebel by Angela Ashton

Seventy Days of Sweat Part 3

Today marks the start of the third round of Sven's Seventy Days. I will be hopefully writing as much as I can each day - I would say 1000 words which is what I aim for normally but I plan to write more that that if I can.

I've got some 'deadlines' appearing on the horizon so I would like to have as much written as soon as possible so that they are not all stacking up. This will not only please me and give me more tweaking time (although that isn't always a good thing) but my 'editor' as well since he goes through the work at least once before submitting.

As well as working on my main pieces, I'm also going to be attempting to write a piece of flash (work less than 1000 words) a day as part of FAD, an event set up on one of the writing forums I visit. The idea behind this is so that by the end of the month I'll have 30 pieces of flash that I can submit to places. I'm hoping that I will get a good number of decent pieces out of it but I'm prepared for lots of pieces that need work doing to them.

Right now I need to go and get on with some writing.

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Telly: None although watching Brother 3 playing on the XBOX

Choc/Yummy: Yummy chocolate and crisps

Mood: Happy, but tired

Main Writing: Nothing so far

Flash Writing: Half a piece done

Reading: Once a Rebel by Angela Ashton