Where to start, where to start....well I attended two new writer's groups here in Colorado Springs. Both of them were very helpful, the second one that I had attended on Tuesday gave me more confidence and courage then I have had in a long time. In fact the first thing I did that day when I got home was took out an old flash fiction piece that I had written and sent it in for submission. Well it was rejected today, however it was a good rejection, (and yes that is possible) the lady gave me a small critique on it, and gave me some ideas on where to go. She suggested to try a different market first, because it was a good piece and if that didn't work she suggested that I rework it. So I've decided that I'm going to go down the list of people to send it to, and if I get rejected by them all then I'm going to rework it into a full sized short story and give it a try that way. We'll see what happens with that.
In other news, its the end of week one for Nanowrimo and I am at a beautiful 17,000 words. Not quite where I wanted to be, but I'm a head of the game. I have daily goals that I want to meet, considering that I take two days off a week for school. Those days I do nothing but school work. Study, test, homework, papers, so I have to make up those 1,667 daily words. Tomorrow my goal for the day is 5,000 more words, which is the goal I met today. I'm close to my original goal which was to be at 20,000 at the end of Sunday. I would like to be somewhere around 22,000 now if I can be since I have the entire day off. I'm actually liking the story I'm working on this year. I've already decided that during December and January I'm going to edit it while also working on my Egyptian store, which I would like to have ready to send out by the end of March. My goal this year is to have an agent by the end of the year. Though that's a subject for another blog. I'm going to bed now. I need some sleep before I decide to try and write 5,000 words. Night!
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