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Jun 4 04: milestone
I just re-sealed the envelope with my application for Viable Paradise in it. Moments after sealing it for the first time, I noticed the check with my application fee sitting all innocent-like upon my desk. But I’m over that now. My ‘audition piece’ is a story called “Slow,” which I’ve been working on for a good while. It’s the first piece of short fiction I’ve completed in…gosh, years, and I’m rather pleased with it. At first I was just using the VP deadline as a prod to get past the existential horror of the blank page and get myself working again: lo and behold, it worked. It’s finished, or at least done, and weighs in at a respectable 7600 wds. And now I’m going to take the plunge and submit. I’m not sure I stand a chance at getting into the program, but at this point, why not give it a shot, right? I’ll worry about how I would pay for the thing only when and if.
Big thank-yous to those of you who read it in beta form. If there’s anybody who’d like to take a look at it now, I’d be delighted to share—just drop me a line.
Now. What do I work on next? The urban-fantasy-horror-thing? The dinosaur story? The one about the small-town wizard?
Probably the dinosaur story. I seem to recall promising a beta version to a friend or two some while back. Watch this space.