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I had entered the Grindstone Literary Contest with the first 5k words of my novel, currently named, Murder at The Peanut Patch, An Andi Raye Mystery. I was excited to finally have enough words to enter a contest for my fiction writing. I got my results back today and I wasn’t even longlisted for the prize. That was the main goal. If longlisted, I would have my work in front of agents and the jou...
Handling Disappointment
Sep 01, 2022
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I’ve been trudging along with the daily writing. I thought I could sustain writing a short story, work on a new story idea, finish the first draft of my novel, write my food based newsletter and articles, and write flash fiction on the daily. It quickly turned into, “that’s a no from me dawg.” Why do we have a tendency to push ourselves too hard? It’s like small progress isn’t enough; ...
Hard Days: Writing Update
Sep 01, 2022
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