word vomit #2

Heidi hi!

Some of you may have noticed that I recently put quite a few pieces from my gallery into storage, those pieces mainly being extracts from Bloodroot and Bracken and Thornless Wilds. The main reasons for this being that a) Over the summer I will be organising my MA portfolio, and I don't want to get accused of plagiarising myself  and b) Thornless Wilds has changed quite a bit since the last time I was posting extracts from it, so it made sense to me to put some of the older material into storage.

What's depressing about this is that the last thing I submitted that wasn't part of a longer piece I submitted back in October. I'm a terrible member of dA.

I wish I could say I have a whole bunch of short stories ready to submit but honestly I've barely worked on any short fiction since I started Bloodroot and Bracken. In my last journal I mentioned an LGBT retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but I've since realised that it could actually turn into something longer than a short story.  

Camp NaNoWriMo isn't going so well (but hey, when have I ever succeeded in any NaNo challenge? ), because I've ended up getting a heap of reading done this month instead. I don't think I realised just how burned out I was after last term, so I think it was rather optimistic of me to even attempt Camp NaNoWriMo this month. One day I really want to take part in NaNo and succeed, but July's not going to be good for me (as I said I'll be working on my portfolio over the summer). I might - might - try and take part in NaNo this November, and perhaps see if I can write a super rough draft of Thornless Wilds, but I'll only be doing that if I have a complete draft of Bloodroot and Bracken by then (which hopefully I will).

As always I'm sorry I've been so quiet on here this year. I still have all of your work waiting in my inbox and I won't be getting rid of it until I've read it! If you ever feel like finding me elsewhere I'm much more active on tumblr and on my blog.

I hope everything's great where you are!