Bet You Thought I Was A Blog Slacker

Blog slacking- not such a bad thing. I've been arranging to meet with a Madison writer/editor friend of a friend, working hard on my schoolwork, and finishing up a new short story. The schoolwork deadline is an odd thing. I did my best writing the two hours before I had to leave for class.z How on earth can you trick yourself into believing you have a deadline daily, so that procrastination brilliance kicks in on a regular basis instead of just before you have an actual deadline?

So that means the first draft of the prologue is done, and like I said I was happiest with the end. Perhaps that means the story will take a new twist.

And the short story I'm working on is a rewrite for Theodore Lights, to be reviewed by my fiction writing classmates (about twelve of them), my professor, and the Tuesdays With Story clan. With all that, seeing as this is already the third draft and finally coming together, I'd say I'll have enough comments to finalize a piece worthy to submit to Clarion by March 1.

And I am having some fun. Mitchell Kim visited last week from Chicago and we took him sledding, for one of the first times in his life. We found a snow-covered stone staircase in Hoyt Park and made a run out of it. I even cleared a jump over Brian's legs.

Here's a video of the action: