What a roller coaster week this has been.
I won a readers’ choice award at Midlife Collage.com for my non-fiction short story, Baby. (It’s posted on my blog under short stories if you want to read it). I was also a semi-finalist in Brenda Drakes’ Can You Leave Us Breathless contest. Both accomplishments I was not expecting and they both left me breathless and very thankful to all who participated and made the venues available.
I re-wrote several of my chapters of In the Shadow of the Dragon King, which I need to re-submit to a publisher; however, my astute 16-year old son found some holes in 3 of those chapters that didn’t make sense to him, so off I go to fix them (geez, I hate it when teens are really right!)
Gearing up for NaNo. The scale tipped in the wrong direction this morning. My power went out while I was in the shower this morning and hubby had to call the power company to fix the main line outside our house. I put a bid out for an freelance editing job and I submitted some poetry for possible submission in an anthology.
Bopped around to a few blogs, visited my online critique sites, and touched base with some other writer buddies I fell out of contact with.
Next book on my reading list: The Glass Man by Jocelyn Adams. 
It’s been getting great reviews and from the excerpts I’ve read, I can’t wait to dive in.
Well, back to writing. I have a feeling it’s going to be a late night. Keep writing and whatever you do, hold on tight to your dream.
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