Musings

This post is going to be slightly different from my usual ones, in that it won’t be a list of recent achievements. Instead, I want to talk about other writers. In a lot of the writers I admire, there is a sense of their disability, their overcoming of that. Frida Kahlo is one of my idols because she pushed through the pain. Right now, I have a broken disc in my back. I have a large degree of debilitation and constant, chronic pain. Some days, I have good days when I try to push through my limits, I have days when I can not get out of bed. I feel guilty about those days. I feel that I am wasting a day languishing unnecessarily. I feel that I need to constantly be upbeat and able to push through it, and yet some days I just can’t. It leaves me with a strange sense of identity, and worth.

Update

So, my weekly update is a day late, or maybe a week late, but I’m sure you’ll forgive me. So, let’s have this week’s stats:
Acceptances: 3, Fragments, a poem at Writers’ Bloc, The Beauty of Letting Go, a short piece in Eclectic Flash, and Eagle Eyed, accepted for an erotica anthology by Circlet Press.
Rejections: Just one, but a big one. OUP returned my Ripped Right Through manuscript, but with nice wishes and constructive comments I can work with, so I take it as a positive.
This month is Nanowrimo, and I’m working on a novel called The Beautiful Things. If you’re also participating in nanowrimo, you can find me here. I’m a little behind on my word count so far, so friendly nagging is encouraged.

Check in…. Frequency unstated

I know, I know, my weekly check in did somewhat cease to be weekly a while ago, but I have decided to keep my check ins to when I have news. This week I had a story, The Night Shift, accepted at Velvet, which is beyond uber exciting for me as it is one of my favourite magazines and I have so much of a writer crush on the editors. I’ve also been trying to branch out into writing fiction in French, as a personal challenge. (For those wondering, I do speak French, it’s not a complete challenge.)

Weekly Update

Acceptances: two, both acceptances I hadn’t realised had happened yet. A story ‘On Beauty’ at the Novelette, and a poem ‘Ostrich’ at sonnetboom.
Rejections:none
Stories submitted: three
Stories started: four

*Blushes*

I discovered this week that another, considerably more established than myself, writer has written a poem about me, and I almost burst with excitement. I like sharing, so you can see it here.

http://www.morewriting.co.uk/work/25483

Weekly check in

Yes, we’re back on track.
Stories finished: two
Stories submitted: two
Acceptances: none this week, although I am in a strange period where a lot of my submissions haven’t really been out long enough yet.

In other news, I am about to start seriously editing my novel ‘Striking a chord’, and am preparing a writing portfolio for application to a Masters degree.

Weekly update?

Yes, any regular visitors, you’re right, my weekly check ins have been not very weekly at all. This is mainly because for every good week I fly through like a whirlwind, I spend the next week riddled with pain and not being able to sleep. So, the only news for this week is that I have been working on short stories, with one completed.

Weekly check-in

News:
My short serial fiction, “Summer at the Grand Hotel” will be featured in the online anthology of this challenge in October. More details nearer the time.

I have a short story entitled “A Slow Start” in Milestone, an anthology of the AugNoWriMo writing challenge.

This week I finished another novel which will hopefully find a home somewhere soon.

Update

Hello,
I realise this blog has been neglected for a little while, and whilst I would love to say I have an exciting reason for this, I sadly don’t. The reason for the hiatus is, quite simply, pain, and its pesky habit for obstructing the creative flow. So, hopefully from next week I will be pushing through the barriers. Next week a series of weekly check ins where you can find out details of acceptances, rejections and works in progress will begin. Until then, bear with me, and send me some painkillers.

Write or die

Today I discovered Doctor Wicked’s Write or Die programme, and it is amazing, curing me of my chronic procrastination that has hit me towards the end of the novel I am working on. So now I shall brag :

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