...for the contest to be judged
...for that trunk story to be rejected from the 10th market you sent it to
...to go to sleep while 20 permutations of the same plot fight for surpremacy in your head
...for the will to reopen that WIP and get crackin'
I am a very impatient person. So far it's not perseverance, but obsession that's keeping me in this new venture. Hopefully by the time that wears off I will have developed some discipline.
In the meantime I am learning. What I have to show for the last 5 months of piecemeal effort:
- 3 complete short stories and 3 WIP's
- an newly cultivated aversion to -ly adverbs and simple verbs
- an unhealthy relationship with a website called duotrope
- a compulsive need to check the wordcount on any short story I read
