Finished 3rd Draft of “Starlight, Starbright”!
Image Source: https://creartys.com/artists/view/109/rocketmanSorry for dropping the blog for the past two weeks, but between being sick with the flu (was still fairly sick on last Monday) and then trying to prepare for my test is Rhetoric and Composition on last Friday, I decided that I really needed to read, read, read! I have a test in film for this week, and I’m still reading like there’s no tomorrow, but I will try to be better this week about blogging–I probably won’t have an entry every day, but I’ll do my best.
3rd Draft of “Starlight, Starbright”
So, I finished my “final” draft for “Starlight, Starbright.” This is the story that I revised in January and was originally called “Rocket-Man.” I planned to submit to an anthology, but it has already closed (I think it closed 2/28). I’ll look around to see if there’s another place I can send it next week when I look at my guidelines, but at the moment, I don’t have a specific place to send it.
Weekend Writer
I’m just going to have to be a weekend writer. I’ve spent Saturdays (at first) and now Sunday evenings to do my writing (& submitting). I really should try to get it down to a story a month, but at the moment that is just too much with classwork, house work and trying to rest from the work week on the weekends. I revised my story (basically) a section at a time, which took approximately 5 or 6 Saturdays in total (which is why I’m deep in to March instead of finishing by late February.)
Write One, Plan One
My goal for 2019 is to find a way to “write one, plan one.” I want to be writing a project and planning another one in the “background.” My plan is to work on & finish the graphic novel of DSRV Outrider and send it off to a publisher. I believe that I’ve lost my artist for that project as I haven’t heard from him for over a year and a half, so I should just probably finish it and submit it to one of the few publishers of graphic novels that doesn’t require an artist. I just listened to a podcast of Writing Excuses with Darren Shan (author of the Cirque du Freak novels). While I admire his writing style and prolific nature, I could not pull off trying to write 12+ novels and stories in in one time–which is what he claims works for him. It just would be too hard. I can come up with an amazing amount of ideas, but I need time in order to execute those ideas effectively. Too many projects at one time and my mind basically “freezes” and I can’t do anything effectively.
Any, that’s a quick and dirty explanation of what’s been going on for the past two weeks: illness, studying for tests, and a brief stint at writing are pretty much the extent of my output for the past two weeks. Hopefully, I’ll be better (in all aspects) in fairly short order. 
