Tuesday, 12 May 2009

• Happy Summer Times

  Hey all - I know I've been pretty spastic about the quality and quantity of posting.  Hopefully that should clear up in a few weeks when I start working less.  I finished a devil paper that I've been working on for weeks for the literature class I'm taking - literally, it was of the DEVIL and would not work.  But it's DONE!  And submitted, and all I have left is the final, then I can apply for grad school once I have the transcripts.  Sheesh. 

  As far as the publications, I know I keep getting excited about it, but over the past five months, I have made 205 (I keep track on a spreadsheet) submissions with about 19 separate pieces of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and have had 6 acceptances.  I'm not sure what percentage that makes, I'm sure D could figure it out.  I'm trying to work now toward what I consider higher tier journals and magazines, working my way up the totem pole.  After finishing the class I want to spend a lot of the summer focused intensly on writing.  I'm not calling myself a writer yet, but I want to keep taking tangible steps towards it.

  I've been feeling happy as hell lately - seriously motivated and in a much better mood than all winter.  I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm looking forward to summer, even summer here in Texas.  It's been in the 90's this week, and I know that's a weak harbinger of what's to come.  But still, the heat and sunshine is so damn cheerful, I can't help being happy about it.

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