Posted 11:57 AM by Tim
Right. September, and I'm already drooling for NaNoWriMo. I've still got my downtown TO job, so the 2 hours on the GO should provide me with ample writing time on a daily basis. Assuming I'm not entirely bogged down by everything else that's about to break forth in my writing life.

Let me elucidate, and thusly, enlighten:

I've been chatting briefly with a gent about doing some journalistic stuff (short-form essays and such) for a website. Not high-profile, but it would have my stuff being read by people in the area.

There's a slow-churning idea for something forming at the back of my head. A friend of mine put the seed of something in there, and it's been slowly germinating ever since.

There's my novella. It's sitting patiently waiting for me to run over it with the editing knives again, and it's just about that time. Then, it'll be down to finding it a venue for submission. Oh the joys of having things turned down and thrown in my face.

There's also an online writing newsletter thing I'm partially involved in. Submissions-wise anyway. I've got one piece in already, and about 2 days to deadline another piece in there just to see if I can get something done. Part of me wants to just wait and put my second piece in for their first quarter issue, but I'm not sure how likely it is that my work will be accepted. It wasn't 100% edited, but it wasn't horrible either.

In other news, I went looking at the Black Library yesterday. I'd read another one of their Warhammer 40K books, and have been thinking of writing one for some time now (possibly for NaNo, even). I wanted to know what their submission guidelines were. Apparently, they haven't any. They don't want submissions. If they do, they ask for them. Through contests. That's how it works. I missed the last contest they had held, so now I'm stuck checking back every month or so to find out when the next contest is going to be if there's any hope of getting published by them.

There's still a very, very small chance of me doing some other stuff and trying out one of the small-time publishers like Ellora's Cave, but that's becoming increasingly distant. My motivation to write "that kind" of story has waned, and I'm not sure how ready I am to re-kindle it.