get my work out there

I haven’t been doing so well with this goal lately. Writing something new for competitions is just not appealing with Awakening so close to finished.

But tonight I did what I’ve been promising myself for a while I would. I formatted up one of my existing pieces and emailed it off to a magazine. Being my first time, there was a complete lack of class to the process, but they claim not to really read cover notes anyway. I’m not holding my breath anything will happen with it, but it’s a start at least.

I missed the first competition I had picked out. I got a bit distracted with Awakening. There’s no competition for March, so I’m going to have to refocus for April. I really want to have Awakening finished, but it’s also important that I actually do something with my work.

This means I may need to put Awakening aside briefly to create something suitable for the April competition. But really, that shouldn’t take long and I’m sure it would be worth it.

It’s just a matter of refocussing.

The list of competitions I want to submit to this year has been made. But a list is pretty useless unless I get off my bum and actually submit to them. That’s what this goal is for.

I believe my first competition is mid February, but I was thinking as a warm up I might send a small piece I’ve had sitting around to a magazine that would be ideal for it.