I finally finally made myself submit something to a print publication. I had a piece accepted at short-story.net about a year ago. I’ve been gearing up my nerve to submit to Glimmer Train and have been putting it off because I was intimidated. About once a month I pull a piece out and fiddle with it and then put it back. Well, I finally decided I was really happy with it and before I could change my mind, sent it in!

I’ve entered for the Very Short Fiction award and the Standard Short Story. It will take at least 90 days to know if I’ve been accepted or rejected.

So uhm. I guess life goes on until then?

In the meantime I wrote something earlier, a non fiction Essay piece called Subject Matter Expert and have submitted it to Indie Ink. We shall see where it goes!

Gee.. I gotta make everything so hard.

I am thinking of revamping Calm Waves and Smooth Moon. Giving it a new title and a little more story and submitting it to a short story archive. Have to check to see if it has to have not appeared elsewhere first, since I put everything in my personal archive.

After that, I’ll get some prompts and get to writing something new as well as plan out the next chapter of All I Wanna Do… I also want to have something submitted to The Glimmer Train by the end of March. I could aim for the end of February but that’s not a lot of time to produce a quality piece.

Going to do it. HAVE to.

Pen in Hand,