You know that thing where you look at the calendar and you’re look “Huh, I think I wrote a blog post a few days ago, but I’d better go check” and then it turns out it was over a week ago and you have no concept of time or space?
Just me? Probably just me.
Anyway, I was shocked to see that' it’s been 9 days since I wrote a post! I could’ve sworn I did one on, like, Wednesday (3 days ago), but no.
In those nine days I’ve finished the first draft of a short story and started working on the second draft. The thing about short stories is that you can’t do my usual trick of writing the novel and then deleting the first three chapters… because there just aren’t three chapters to delete! But I’m kind of doing that now with this story… I’m removing the opening scene completely because, just like the first few chapters of my novel, I wrote it more so I could learn who the characters are, rather than it being important for the story. And in a short story you just don’t have the real-estate or space to waste. It’s a neat challenge, for sure.
Hopefully I’ll get the second draft finished today, and the story submitted to it’s (hopefully!) forever home tomorrow!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!