Hmmm, might have been a while since I posted.
The good news is that I’ve almost finished the editing on the story for submission (oh, last week? Well, this week it will be submitted — not out of time yet). I’m sure I spend more time editing than doing the first draft (even if the first draft takes ten redrafts).
And then, as always happens near the end of a project, a little line came into my head:
It happened tomorrow, but here I am stuck in yesterday with no way to move forward or back far enough to stop it.
That makes for intriguing thoughts about a story.
And no, I’m not worried about someone stealing an idea.
Ideas are free, and hard work goes into making a story compelling. The above line is an intrigue, a tease, the siren-song of a new story calling.
It’s why there’s a point where the current WeeInPee stops. The subconscious is telling me that it’s time to let go, to move on, to follow the wanderer in my heart.
To find new love.
Not a person or a thing, a new story that holds my mind on a single track (yeah, like stories are single-track) and yet frees my soul to wander wherever, this world or another, this time or another.
It’s almost time to step away from my current flame to create a new scar, a permanent reminder of what is, what could be, and how it comes together.
And that’s enough of that.
I’ll see you on the other side, and I’ll let you know how the subs go (I do have another submission call to look at — and it’s been picking away at the back of my brain …).
Have a great Sunday, Solstice of Winter here, a new moon at the dawn. An omen?
Cage Dunn - Fibber, Fabricator, Teller-of-Tall-Tales 
That is a great line, full of intriguing possibility.
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And could be any genre, or sub-genre.
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Brilliant line! Good luck with submission. I got another rejection yesterday for a short story comp, but like a trooper i submitted to two other comps 🤞🤞
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There will be one
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Good luck with the submissions. (Forgive me, but I dislike that word; prefer “offerings.” And yeah, I know it reflects the wrong attitude, but there it is.) An inspiring sentence is a writer’s gift.
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I’m not sure if either of them are close to the act of presenting work to be assessed for publication …
I neither submit to undertake at their whim, nor offer blood in return for favour — but what other word do we have?
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Well, it’s the accepted word in publishing. Most writers use it without a thought, and it’s not worth arguing about. But every now and then I just have to say what I think.
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As we do. As we should continue to do.
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‘…here I am stuck in yesterday’ – great phrase, and very relatable. Good luck with the submission, and with the tomorrows that will come.
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Thank you, and I wish you well with all your tomorrows
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Go where the inspiration leads i reckon
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