The short story deadline has passed, and it never got written much less submitted. I did a fair amount of research for it, but every time I started and restarted the story, it always came out more of the beginning of a novel with no place to go (plot-wise, that is). Just as well I've abandoned it. Maybe I can use some of the research one of these days. Hate to waste it altogether.
I've decided not to do nanowrimo this year. It was fun last year, but "been there, done that" now, so I'll move on. After all, I did accomplish the goal of writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. What I want to do now is rework that same novel into a YA novel and maybe, if it's done in time, send it to Delacorte for the YA contest. That's due by December 31st. We'll see if I can rewrite the novel in 60 days (minus almost a week, as it's already Nov. 4th).
I'm still doing suite 101 articles. I've got 9 published there, and have several more in mind--some more on language learning of course, and a couple of book reviews. I can see this is an endless project, and that's a very good thing.
If I haven't heard from Coteau Books by the end of January, I'll email them to say that the historical juvenile novel will no longer be theirs exclusively. Then I can send it on to someone else. The only way it'll ever get published is if I keep it going.
This evening I'm going to a workshop to learn about internet presence for writers--websites, etc. So far, my only internet presence is this blog and my suite 101 articles.
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