Update

Just had a story accepted by a nice magazine and just learned that another of my stories has had a good win - a story that belongs to my submissions for 2011 so is not in contravention of my resolution to enter fewer competitions in 2012.

In fact, I have not sent out a single story for 2012... by this time last year I had entered 4 comps... so I consider that an advancement. I'm still obsessively checking the thirteen comps waiting to declare from 2011's entries... but doing so less and less so that the notification of this week's win was a surprise and came out of the blue.

Am mostly keeping to the writing resolution and giving attention to bigger projects... have only written one short story since new year but have penned 10,000 words to a bigger project. Don't know how long I can keep this up. We'll see.

Must do more about sorting my stories into collections... I have enough for two good collections so far.

Hope the year is being good to the visitors that pop along here when I am not looking.

The first of 2012

Happy New Year to one and all.

It is customary to make resolutions at this time of year. This involves changing oneself in some way or determining to. It involves identifying something that is unsatisfactory in oneself over the year behind us and looking forward to how it might be different in the year ahead... so here goes:

1) I will write more; every day is the goal... something at least.

2) I will enter far fewer competitions; despite the success rate of this past year having surpassed any other previous year, the cost to one's sanity in failing 50% of the time is heavy.

3) I will complete some larger projects this year; and there are quite a few of them there 'balls' up in the air at the moment.

There! They are not many and maybe are not all... but they are, I think, enough.

I wish everyone who comes here a very happy 2012.

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