It has been more than six weeks since I participated in Write Anything’s Fiction Friday. It has been an unofficial break to date – with my son’s birthday party cutting in the first week, a trip to the Bunya’s the second, a prompt I couldn’t make work the third, then two weeks away on holidays.
The break has made me realise I need to take an official break from writing new fiction and concentrate on the overfollowing folders of old work which needs revising, editing, critiquing and writing.
All of a sudden I seem to have a bee in my bonnet about getting some work published.
It seems as if the start of the year was about starting and the end of the year is about finishing. There seems to be a balance in it.
The Griffith review is publishing a special summer edition of fiction this year. The deadline is the 5th August and the premise is to show something new about ourselves beyond the political and market rhetoric.
The My Sandals story (which I’m thinking of retitling something like “Perspectives from the Sand” or “Perspectives of Sand”) is a potential starter. It was entered it in EditorUnleashed/Smash Words flash fiction competition with no luck – but I think it is suitable for the Griffith Review. The hard message beneath the veneer tells us we’re often wrong as parents and subject our children to pain and anguish in our quest to keep them safe. I just need to check the word count for GR.
I’m also working on the fourth and final section of Graceville. I had considered putting it up for critting for my QWC course but the time frames don’t merge in a good way. So will ask some friends to look over it for comment and submit it as well. I”m aware it is a highly experimental piece and may not be to everyone’s liking. And thus – need to find something of an ‘alternate’ publishing outlet for it.
Once those have been submitted – I’ll be looking at rewriting Light Years and also the unnamed long short story which I guess I should just refer to as Lea and Jude’s story for ease of mention.
I have the fun of putting up the Fiction Friday prompts in August – meaning I will possibly return to writing some Fiction Friday entries in September or October – or earlier… if the back log of rewriting and editing goes faster than expected.
I’ll be back later on with some ideas on the Blog-a-thon and Hartog.
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I think it’s great you’ve got the publishing bug. I need more of it, I think but it’s more my laziness in regards to editing even though I have no problem pumping out first drafts.
Hopefully we’ll see you comment on some of our pieces at least. I’ve been really slack with reciprocating feedback though.
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My committment to go back and edit/rewite went superbly until the following day my computer went fizzle pop (and is still sitting in the bag to be taken to the repairer) and I hadn’t backed up the latest edits – so now I’m in a hiatus from working on those.
My story “Graceville” got a big make over and the last part which has sat waiting to be rewritten finally had that happen. The upside of the computer breaking down is the rewrite will have a week to perculate before I go back and re-read. I just get the feeling it is a story perhaps never intended to be published??
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