Done!

On Friday I mailed my two short stories via express post and I have just now confirmed they arrived ok. It’s a great feeling and I’m certainly on a high from it. The competition results won’t be known until March 2011. By then I’ll no doubt be working on a thousand other things.

So what now? What’s next? I’m currently taking a few days off to recharge the batteries as the burn at the end of last week was pretty intense. Over the weekend I heard of another short story competition, this time a maximum of 3000 words for the Age newspaper.

I have never written to a 3,000 limit before. I have an entire month to do this in so I’ll give it a go, why not? I’ve got an idea in mind that I’m trying to put into a very simply story arc. I’m waiting for my subconscious to work it all out and the little bell in my head to ring, informing me the story framework is ready. I’m not sure it’s going to happen this time due to the size constraints, only time will tell. 3,000 words allow for relatively simple stories and like always I feel this idea might have the legs for something larger. Why does this keep happening to me!

If it doesn’t work out I’ll simply do something else. The world is my oyster and there is a story in almost everything. I feel very capable of writing short stories now which is great.

This weekend is AussieCon and I’m very much looking forward to it. Over the last few days I spent considerable time trying to map out all the sessions I want to attend. Unfortunately on a few time slots there are as many as 5 interesting events and only one me, doh!

Such is life.

Watch this space for plenty of AussieCon feedback early next week.