I got a bulletin from my local writer’s group today. In it was an ad for a sci-fi/fantasy anthology with an upper word limit of 10 000 words… the exact word limit of my final project for uni, entitled Siren Songs. So I immediately opened the file, checked I’d made all the edits I needed to make, cut the word limit down (which seemed to have grown by 120 words since I graduated) and sent it off.

I’m very nervous. There’s a voice in my head telling me that I should have checked the publication out more. But I also knew that if I didn’t send it away immediately, it was going to become just another thing I put off until later and then never got around to doing.

I should hear by the end of March.