Win some, lose some

I ended up looking for apartments during much of the time I would've spent organizing my old writing, so my friends don't have anything in hand yet. Soon as I get an apartment, I'll put something together. Hopefully I won't have to wait until the last week of the month to have a confirmed apartment; if so, I won't be giving my friends any writing for about a month.

There is a silver lining today, however: Over the weekend in my usual writing time I managed to finish the first draft of a story I've been working on since I started writing again, and write two very short stories. I'm reading fairy tales right now, and find their concise character to be very appealing--sort of like minimalist poetry in a way.

I also discovered there is an organization for Science Fiction Poetry writers. I always thought I was the only one, so I was very excited to see it. So excited I sent out three of my poems for consideration. In the next two weeks I plan to send out all my other good speculative poems, whenever I have a minute or two to do so. Now that I know there's some small market for them, maybe I'll write some more . . .. I always did like writing them more than anything else.

I also have decided on a goal for myself: I want to get my writing strong enough to attend next summer's Odyssey 6-week intensive writing workshop. I'll have to be careful that I don't stress out about this goal and ruin my writing, but I think just having the goal should add some extra motivation for when things get sticky.