Managed to cut my Halloween story to acceptable length and get it submitted for the contest before the deadline. I don’t have high hopes for it, but that’s all right. As I’ve said before, I think it wants to be a novel. And it might just get its wish before long. We’ll see.
So now I need to get Petra into submission shape. I’ve been going over the comments from my readers again, and making a list of the things I need to fix. I would love to have this thing shipped out to prospective agents by the end of the month, leaving me with a month and a half to work on the rewrite of Petra Released before the December 15th deadline for the Codex Novel Contest. I doubt I’d have another draft of it finished by then, but I can at least get the opening chapters whipped into better shape.
I tell ya, it’s tough for me to focus when I’m not at home in my office. I’m easily distracted under the best of circumstances, and being here in Atlanta, in a nice hotel, with no real agenda for my evenings . . . well, it was an effort just to get me to do this blog entry. I guess this is a new skill I need to learn.
So I’ll give it another shot tonight. Wish me luck.
