Writing Stuff
Received my check from The Sword Review for “Second Daughter.” Yay!
Also, I queried Nowa Fantastyka about the contract, payment, and contrib. copies of the issue “All in My Mind” was published in, and got an immediate response from the editor. There was a bookkeeping snafu, but all are en route, or soon will be. Whew.
Did a pair of editing passes on the Korean folktale after a bout of research on Eastern folktales and mythology. But I think my muse may be tuckered out. I wanted to start on another folktale, but nothing struck my fancy. Maybe this would be a good time to get back to work on the novel.
Work
Pay is good. As for the novel…you mean you weren’t working on it?
Joel
Re: Work
I got burned out and then de-railed on the novel, and decided to focus on the short stuff again for a while. I’m way overdue to return to it.
Yay for checks! 😀 Fun things…I’ve gotten one, once, far too long ago. 🙂 Not for fiction, though…odd, because I think of myself as a fiction writer. Oh, well. It will come!
Would your muse like some mint-chocolate-chip ice cream? That’s what mine likes. 🙂 Either that or a good textbook…I have some history books that really get it fired up. Trouble is, I have yet to read them through to the end! Every time I read them, I get distracted after just two or three sentences with some new idea. :-/
Ooo! My muse is quite a fan of mint chocolate chip ice cream, especially the Breyer’s kind. Although she’s also rather partial to moose tracks ice cream. And of the non-ice cream nourishment, she likes mythology, folk, and fairy tales–which probably explains why I end up writing so many of those sorts of stories.
Nothing wrong with that! 😀 My moose–er, muse–has never had moosetracks. Then again, neither have I. As I understand it, it’s better we not know what we’re missing. 🙂