Finished the first draft of my new short story, A Lesson in Power today with 6652 words, which I packaged up and sent it out to my beta-readers for mauling, uh, I mean feedback. So that’s now two short stories in the can and I’m feeling pretty good about 2013 so far.
Now, if I could just figure out how to fix the plotting problems in the first few chapters of An Empire Forgotten I’d be ecstatic.
Meanwhile, still got a couple of ideas for short stories brewing. Of course there will always be Storms on an Opal Sea, at least it seems that way, as it reminds me more of an albatross every time I look at it. I have to get over this “feeling” like working on a story and just make it happen.
Don’t get me wrong, that feeling makes it easy to write, energizes me, and gives me hope that I’m actually making progress. I already know how the story ends, so its not that. I know from experience and hearing from other writers that its almost impossible to remember how hard or easy a section of writing was later on, so there’s no reason to dawdle. Still, it is what it is. One day I’ll feel motivated and finish it lickety-split, or I’ll worry it like a college level research report due tomorrow and grind away until its done.
Until that day, I think I’ll just work on A Painful Blessing instead.
