I got my schedule for the NorWesCon writers workshops and it was just what I needed to bring me out of my writing funk. I must admit, for the last week I’ve totally slacked off writing, spending most of my time (previously scheduled for writing) knitting.
My excuse is that my sister requested a sweater and sent me the yarn and pattern for it, and a friend has a birthday coming up and I wanted to knit her something special. Oh, and I finally started a sweater for myself from the aran yarn my mom bought for me in Ireland five years ago. But really, it was all procrastination.
See, I’ve been putting off submitting two short stories, one to Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and the other to the Intergalactic Medicine Show. Oh, and that novel that I’m shopping around, yep, been procrastinating on that one too.
Getting that email from the writers workshop has spurred me to get back to work. Today I printed the short story for Asimov’s (they don’t take email submissions so I’ll drop it in the snail mail tomorrow since today is Presidents Day and those lucky postal workers and bankers have the day off). I’ve also worked out the query letter for the short story for Intergalactic Medicine Show, the daunting task that prompted my knit-a-thon. And that query for Necali’s Domain? It’s on its way to an agent, so cross your fingers for me.
