After a longish gap for reflection and battery charging, I'm just about ready to get writing again. I think many years of meaning to write and not quite getting round to it is a hard habit to break and it's one of the reasons why I enjoyed my OU course so much. There's nothing like a looming deadline to concentrate the mind - especially when you've paid good money to have someone hassle you. I'm just beginning to see some results though, small but positive nonetheless. This week I was told that a story I submitted to a flash fiction website months ago is going to be published in an anthology available on Amazon. It's a teeny wee story and the sales of the anthology will probably be immeasurably small, but it's a publication all the same!
I also heard this week (why everything at once?) that my poem 'Wise Wirds' is going to be included in a poetry anthology published by Fife Book Fest. Again, a prospect of tiny sales but a publication.
I've signed up for the next level of Creative Writing and just had a look at the volume of work they're expecting to see. It's quite daunting. It's also exciting though and takes me in some different directions. Watch this space for news of how I get on with more short stories, longer poems and a plunge into the world of script-writing.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flash-Fiction-World-ebook/dp/B0096QHYA8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1347021341&sr=1-1
