Oops! My deadline for giving my story to Adam was yesterday, but I still need to finish the final scene. Of course, it’s the most difficult one to write. I offered him the first 6 pages of the story last night, but it makes more sense for him to just sit down and read the piece in its entirety. I’m going to work on it during lunch today and then print it out before I head home from work.

Better news, though. I had completely forgotten about the short story collection I wrote for National Novel Writing Month last year. I didn’t finish a lot of the stories I started for the project, and a lot of the beginnings are long, long character studies that go nowhere… BUT, seeing as I’ve apparently been in a stupor of writing-related pessimism for the past year, I had to open the Word file again to remember that I actually did complete two stories, and they’re actually pretty good. I hadn’t read them for a long time, and I’d forgotten what happened at the end, so, thanks, Past Version of Self, for entertaining me and keeping me in suspense. I’m going to revise those two stories and try sending them out to a few literary journals.