Back to the Writing Board...

Today I re-organized myself, and my stories. Once you have a certain amount, they start to go missing. I did, in fact, completely lose two stories - very good ones - and I'm not sure rewriting them will bring their wonder back for me.

We had a training about OneNote at work the other day, and our trainer listed all sorts of possibilities - keeping all your training documents in one place, lists of cleanup activities, meeting notes - all worthy and very nice uses for OneNote.

None of those uses were on my mind. I was already creating a notebook filled with stories at different levels of completion, lists of my editing and writing processes, character sketches, web stories of interesting and quirky things I could write into my stories...

It was a thing of beauty.

When I put my existing stories in OneNote, all my ducks in a row, I was dismayed.

Here I'd thought I had a good 17 stories on my way to my first 52 stories.

I had a total of 10 stories, not all of them even finished.

So I'm turning myself about, hokey-pokey style, and getting back to work.

Did an autopsy on a new story today, and ready to rework story #1, but for what market? It won't fit either of the last two markets I've checked out, but maybe Fantasy&Science Fiction? They like funny character-oriented stories, and this one's a lightly amusing fantasy. Beef up the characters, and it could work. Basically, they take anything that's science fiction or fantasy, up to 25,000 words, which is a nice, open amount most of my stories fit into. They could become a regular place for submitting.

I'm a finisher. Keep telling myself that. A finisher. So easy to think I'm writing, when I'm really not. Don't fall into that trap (note to self).

I'm aiming to finish this rewrite by next Friday, May 5th, and have it ready to go, in whatever condition it's in. It might need more editing, but I'm not hanging onto it longer than that. Whatever condition it's in, out it goes.

Out they all go. Too many baby birds in the nest.