I’ve now made lunch (pea soup and a sandwich using sliced Polish sausage I meant to use during the week) and had a lie down. It turned out to be a restorative nap of just over an hour, after which I answered comments. Thank you for your good wishes. I will pass them o to Julia too.
Now it is time to get down to writing about writing.
Last month’s planned output was not huge, and I managed to do most of it. I was feeling a little rough towards the end and did allow one deadline to slip by. I also failed to look for more things to do. Obviously I’m a little disappointed in myself for slacking off, but I still managed six submissions. One is a competition entry, which will most likely disappear without trace. Two have already been accepted, which was good news to a man stuck in hospital. Three others are in the grip of an editorial committee. I’m expecting poor results there because it’s a new arrangement and because when things change I usually do worse than under the previous system. It’s just how things are.
Anyway, it will be two from six, even if the worst happens, and when I was beginning that would have seemed like a fine result.
I’ve also been asked for permission to quote a poem of mine as a prompt in part of a series of articles someone is doing. That feels quite good.
In June I have eleven submissions to make. I already have one acceptance because I was asked to let someone roll a poem forward. I’m always happy to do that. It feels good and it saves time later. I had better get on with some work next week.
That is the first time such a thing has happened, and in a second new first, one of the members of the Peterborough Military History Group has asked to reprint something I wrote for the group in another local publication.
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe a man with fine facial hair is reading a book . . .
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Despite having to deal with so much, you have accomplished a lot. I’m impressed.
Thank you. I sometimes think I could do with a rest, but I tell myself that literary reputations don’t make themselves. 🙂 😉 😉
Oh, so true!
🙂 As a leading author of YA fiction you will, of course, be familiar with this sort of pressure. 🙂
Well, an author anyway. 😉
You are the best YA author I know. 🙂
And you are an author. I’m still not sure that I’m really a writer as everything I do is so short.
Good to see you on the move again, and to have learned that Julia is recovering
She’s going to outpatients this afternoon so we will finally find out what is happening. We’ve never known anyone who cut their throat like this,, so it’s difficult to know what is normal and what is a problem.
Now tell me this; it’s a question I have often pondered over; just who are those fellows on editorial committees who can’t see brilliance when it’s right there in front of them?
A very promising start to the month.
Yes, it’s going well so far. 🙂
It sounds like your writing is going fairly well in spite of everything going on, Simon. That is no small feat! Congratulations to you, and please give my best to Julia.
Thanks Lavinia. I will do that.