Sorry I haven’t given you anything new to read in a while. I’ve been tired, short of time, with too many things to do, and writing got squeezed out. Luckily I saw a one-day crime-writing workshop advertised at such short notice that I didn’t have time for second thoughts. That’s where I’ve spent today, and it was a tonic for the soul (thanks, Danuta Reah). My mojo, as it were, has been re-tuned.
Give or take a couple of days, we’re midway through the year – not too bad a time to reassess and get yourself back on track. So I’ll quickly tell you I’ve got a bit of twitter fiction in the summer issue of Boston Literary Magazine, then I’ll pull myself together, replenish the ever-present mug, and make some submissions. Already this year I’ve made as many as I did in the whole of 2010 and nearly as many as in 2009. I might have blown the post a week 2011 challenge, but I’m still on course for collecting all those rejection slips I promised myself.
[...] — Leave a comment July 2, 2011 This blog’s been untended even longer than my main writing blog, but as well as me getting back into the writing groove, Mark’s pressing ahead with the art [...]