January 17, 2010

  • Back to School.....

    2 more days off, then I'm back in school.  It will be my last semester of attending classes, unless I decide to take a creative non-fiction workshop somewhere in there (which I might). 

    Classes this semester are:

    • Playwriting
    • Graduate Fiction Workshop (phase 4)
    • Fiction Form and Technique (Voice)
    • Intro to Poetry (this is for my teaching license certificate but will also help when I teach intro to creative writing in spring of 2011). 

    I'm actually looking forward to all of my classes this semester. 

    In terms of writing, I've sent out one short story for paid publication to 8 literary magazines.  One might take it.  I feel good about it overall, but that doesn't mean anything to the editors of lit magazines.  It's in 2nd person which can turn people off, but a lot of lit mags dig the "voice potential" that it creates. 

    It's called "Full Moon Mo'Nique" and it's about 2 Amish girls on Rumspringa. 

    I also had a flash fiction (under 1000 words) story accepted at Midnight Screaming, a lit mag based out of Tennessee.  I should be getting that journal in the mail any day.  VERY excited!

    I've joined a writing group.  We write genre.  I've finally started a novel that's been in my head for almost 10 years now--"Borrowed Time."  It's modern supernatural/fantasy.  Things are looking good!