This week has turned into a complete cluster, but a few deep breaths and I think I’m getting through it. One of the bright points was the writing group last night (yeah, had a busy day).

Plus, I got honorable mention in a contest.

We got to my story, Victim of Love, as part of our schedule. I was honestly expected a new asshole, mainly because I don’t think I’m a good writer, but it was surprisingly positive feedback. And relatively little negative. The rewrites and corrections apparently made it a much more enjoyable story. I got some really good suggestions on making it smoother, tying in some background, and fixing some rough points.

Overall, I thought it was very productive and very helpful.

I should have it ready for submissions in a week or so. Though, it comes in at 4k words, which is a bit long for comedy/horror calls for submissions I’ve seen.

We also didn’t have anything new for next week, so I volunteered to do another. It will either be chapter one of Flight of the Scions or another fantasy comedy, Best of Enemies. I also have that commission I have to work on which is due in two weeks.

I also need to seriously tweak the PDF generator. I miss my 12pt Courier. And maybe create an index for the writing group in a supersekrit place. Oh well, it should be a rather busy weekend.

As for the contest, Boing Boing had a contest to win an Envy 15 laptop. Cute little thing that would be perfect for replacing my dying one. I didn’t win, but I did get honorable mention for my attempt to rewrite a scene from Peter Pan in a noir POV.