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To write or not to write?

9/5/2011

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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. 

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Angie link
9/6/2011 06:14:37 am

I missed that announcement. Don't know if I'll enter this year or not. I'm like you. I can't work on more than one thing at a time. Good luck with your current WIP!

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Melanie Goldmund
9/6/2011 09:33:20 pm

Thanks, Angie! And good luck with your writing projects as well!

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    Melanie Goldmund

    I've written fanfic under the names of Jane Jinn and Zelofheda, and some original fic under my real name.

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