Opportunities

Sometimes you just get lucky. After the rejection I received from my short story submission to a Chicago literary magazine, I was a little slow to jump back in the mix. My rejection pile continues to grow and my confidence needs a boost once in a while.

I've been invited to join a team of writers on an anthology project. Each writer submits a story, which comprises the length of one chapter, and serves as editor to another story in the book. It is the chance of a lifetime and it's only the start. The follow-up book to the anthology is already in the works as well.

This is a very exciting opportunity and I will be happy to share more when it gets closer to the publication date. Time to put the novel aside and get to this project. I'll post more soon.

Time...

...keeps on tickin', tickin', tickin.' Been busy, though the book is killing me right now. I'm stuck on how to write a 'party' scene.

Imagine a ton of people in a room in various stages of sobriety all having several conversations at the same time. There are people bragging and arguing and flirting, all concentrated on themselves, and the dialogue needs to come across on the page as if the reader is right there. That's one of the challenges I've posed for myself, and it's not even a big scene. It's just something that needs to happen in the story and it's giving me a headache (as if I'm there with the start of a hangover as well).

This story is as unknown to me as the reader and each day of writing reveals more about the characters and the way they see the world. I love the discoveries I make each time I sit down to find out what's going on. I can't wait to see what happens tomorrow!