Well, I see that LDS Publisher is back from her summer holidays and has just announced the 2011 Christmas Short Story Contest. I've put the button on my front page, but I don't know if I'm going to enter this year. Even listening to the song "Don't Shoot Me, Santa Claus" by the Killers hasn't inspired me to come up with a good plot. Not that I was working very hard at it, anyway. I'm right in the middle of another story which is coming along really well, and to tell the truth, I'm not sure I want to take a break from it. I've never been a person who can work on two things at once with equal verve; if I do have two ideas, I end up concentrating on one and ignoring the other, or getting them both mixed up somehow. So I think I'll keep plugging away at my little space opera instead.
Well, I say "little," but it might end up at novella length or even longer before I'm finished. I'd originally planned to submit it to Mindflights, but I started obsessing about the fact that they prefer works of fewer than 5000 words, and then I couldn't write at all. It took a very conscious decision for me to forget those constraints before I could get back in the groove and start working again. I've told myself I'll write it first and then worry about the market later. So far, it's been a productive path.
Well, I say "little," but it might end up at novella length or even longer before I'm finished. I'd originally planned to submit it to Mindflights, but I started obsessing about the fact that they prefer works of fewer than 5000 words, and then I couldn't write at all. It took a very conscious decision for me to forget those constraints before I could get back in the groove and start working again. I've told myself I'll write it first and then worry about the market later. So far, it's been a productive path.
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