Waiting room: Friday Update
News:
Handful of rejections for the new year. I suspect there won’t be much news until February.
Works in Progress:
Burn out is still in play right now, so I’m moving more slowly through my second short story, but I am moving. I think I’m going to get the next two short stories under my belt as well, since they’re both under 2K words. I’m in a bit of an ideas slump. It happens, and it’s not a problem in and of itself, since I have a surplus of ideas I’ve already written down that I can work on instead. But I managed to come up with two new things for a couple anthology calls.
Due to deadlines, I think I’ll tackle edits for novelette Hear You Scream and novella A Woman Alone next. Then the Meridian novel, Silver & Steel.
Books I’m Reading:
IT by Stephen King
This World Belongs to Us edited by Michael W. Phillips, Jr. (finished)
Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire
Ending in Ashes by Rebecca Jones-Howe
Music I’m Listening To:
Christmas playlist (It’s still the Christmas season. 12 days of Christmas, y’all. I’ve gone through the entire collection, and now I’m hitting my favorites. Then I’ll move on.)
Things I’m Watching:
Better Watch Out
The Mummy (2017)
30 Days of Night
Great British Baking Show: Holiday Edition series
Holiday Baking Championship series (finished)
Christmas Cookie Challenge series (finished)
Monk series (Season 5 finished. New Year’s tradition, we watch a new season every year.)
Hoarders series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer series (watchalong)
Angel series (watchalong)
Transplant series
Murder, She Wrote series
Poem of the Week:
waiting behind the
reservoir of damned disease
thick magma of mucus
in colors of a bruise
swollen face and
swollen lymph nodes
nymphs burst from
oothecae on a single cell
level a wet cough
and a dry mouth
rattling
