Driving, lunch, writing
20-Nov-03
Driving has been making me increasingly carsick lately, particularly when I have to drive in heavy traffice (read: all the time). I suppose being chronically nauseated is good for my diet, though.
Had lunch with Inga at Togo’s– saved second half of my sandwich for dinner tonight.
Going to a write-in tonight. Hopefully I will be terrifically productive and get a nice 2500 words done tonight, and then another 2500 tomorrow, to break 50K by the end of the day tomorrow.
I’m tired this afternoon– why don’t grownups get naptime, too?
I have two stories I want to send out to various markets– one to ’s e-zine, and another to Zyzzyva. The one I’m sending to Zyzzyva is one of my more marketable pieces– mainstream fiction with a very “sparse” feel to it (NaNoWriMo’ers who were at the retreat will recognize it as the piece I read on Saturday night– thanks for the market suggestion.
I need to do my 2 crits for OWWW this month. I’m ahead for subs from last month, but since I’m new, I don’t want people to think I just dropped suddenly. I might polish up and submit The Fairies for critique; I’m continuously conflited about whether it’s a worthwhile piece to work on or not.
Next month, I want to work on Plumber and get that more polished. There’s something “off” with the ending, and I’m not sure what. I like the premise, and I like the characters. I even like the story– to a point. It’s near the end that it stops working, and I think there’s a fundamental problem, in that I, as the writer, don’t entirely know what the nasty shit in the basement is.
Plus I need to edit Tricker Treats so I can start submitting it to publishers and agents for consideration. In my agreement with my current agent, she only handles nonfiction for me. Even though I can send her my fiction to shop around and to get me out of the slush pile, she’s not terribly connected in the fiction markets, so far as I know.