The #NaNoWriMo Challenge Revisited.

So, what has the last weekheld for me with regard to writing?I was reading Plato's The Republic and discovered it heldreferences to a number of themes I'd touched on in the novel I drafted inNovember for the NaNoWriMo challenge. It was clear that it would help me withthe editing if I finished reading Plato's work before I started. So, this weekI finished reading and then reviewed TheRepublic . I wrote another post forthe blog, a piece about emotion in writing that will appear on 26 January.I revisited two shortstories; one a piece of erotica that I'm still unsure about placing, thoughit's a finished tale now. The other was a dystopian science fiction piece,which I'm still considering for submission. Can't make up my mind whether tosend it to a contest (there are plenty listed under the 'Writing Contests' tababove, so I've no excuse on that score) or to one of the many magazines (Duotrope, of which I'm a member,lists over 3,770 journals that take stories or poetry, so no excuse there,either).And, I finally made astart on the editing process of the NaNoWriMo novel. My first read through is asimple one, highlighting anything obvious that needs attention but withoutactually making any alterations. I've done the first five chapters so far. Ofcourse, there's a lot of work to do before it'll be ready for publication, butI'm enjoying the work and surprised at just how good some of the text is,considering the speed with which I produced this first draft. More on that as Iprogress.I've also done a littlework on various websites I visit, some of the social networking sites I belongto, and have read this month's Writing Mag, highlighting those portions I needto revisit. The current Writers' Digest is still only half read, though.So, that's the end of thiswriting week. Let's see what the new one brings.
The picture is a reminder of the summer to come; something to warm you in this cold part of the year.