I did not get in to the “personal Odyssey” workshop. Which was sad but not unexpected. I then spent about 5 days revising my “Stars End” story for the last workshop I will be applying to, Viable Paradise. That application went out at the end of May and I should hear this month.
I had stopped submitting my stories to markets in about March of this spring. I just didn’t have the time or energy to keep at it. Now that my life has come back to me, I am planning to dust off the 3 flash pieces and the one short fiction piece and get them back out. I will be focusing on writing the novel starting soon. I have been submitting my chapters to my biweekly critique group which is forcing me to revise and get feedback, which is much appreciated. It is a lot of work holding this all in my head and I am really looking forward to getting it on the “page” and then getting the feedback on it from my group. But most important, my focus for the summer is to get the whole thing drafted. A whole complete probably 75k word draft of a novel. And then the real work begins, I know.