It’s been a while in coming. I’ve updated my To Do list.
Clearly, I’m not alternating with the Monte Cristo novel. I’m focusing on The Winter the Troll Danced with Old Nick and making some progress. The Monte Cristo novel will come once the Troll story is circulating.
I am kicking out the short story currently called Death by Drowning, with the intention of shooting it off to Abyss and Apex before the month is out. This thing is tight, full of exact vocabulary, and may turn into a piece of flash fiction. I think I’m channeling the spirit of Hemingway when he wrote A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. This worries me.
Frankie, okay, I’ll write it. That thing we talked about in your journal. I’ll post it in my awelkin journal. I won’t do it until Death by Drowning is done and submitted, but yeah, I have an idea.
My final plan is to take a look at several short pieces I wrote from 2002-2004, and see if I can suborn them to other purposes.
Finally, for Aric’s new venture, I have to do some character sketching.
Off to help a friend clean out a storage locker. Later, fellow keyboarders. I’ll be back.
Catherine
