*beats head on keyboard*

Actually, I'd be beating my Muses...

If I could find them.

The Books Gone Bad story? Yeah, HUGE plot hole. Unless I can turn it around so Gabriel's uncle is a retired high-mucky-muck wizard who's thrown it all over to run a pawn shop, it makes no logical sense that he'd know what the book was and be all "GETITAWAYFROMME!", but the professors at the magic university would just reach out and grab the damn thing going "Ooo."

In fact, logic is failing on so many levels on this story that I'm seriously considering just abandoning it...

The problem is that I don't have anything else to write. *cries*

*beats head on keyboard*

Actually, I'd be beating my Muses...

If I could find them.

The Books Gone Bad story? Yeah, HUGE plot hole. Unless I can turn it around so Gabriel's uncle is a retired high-mucky-muck wizard who's thrown it all over to run a pawn shop, it makes no logical sense that he'd know what the book was and be all "GETITAWAYFROMME!", but the professors at the magic university would just reach out and grab the damn thing going "Ooo."

In fact, logic is failing on so many levels on this story that I'm seriously considering just abandoning it...

The problem is that I don't have anything else to write. *cries*

*continues to beat head on keyboard*

So, I went poking through Ralan's in search of markets, because that's what I do when I'm, you know, not writing but should be. And I found a couple of contests I'd love to enter, both due in October.

Werewolves!

Post-apocalypse!

Both have word limits of 2,500, which you'd think I could bang out in a week or two. And I would.

IF I HAD PLOT.

I mean, I've written one werewolf story already, and that was just a blast. It's one of my favorites, in fact, so I'd love to do it again...if I had plot.

Which I don't.

And it's probably wrong that I'm intimidated by that one post-apocalypse story in the September 2007 issue of F&SF, John Langan's "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers," but I am because it's so fabulous and I really could never achieve something like that...even if I had plot.

Which I don't.

*ssssssiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhhhh*

It's like my writing font has dried up and blown away, y'all...

So much for finishing a story a month. I was hoping to up that to a story every two weeks, but at this rate I'll be lucky if I write anything more THIS YEAR.

Bah. *goes hunting inspiration*

*continues to beat head on keyboard*

So, I went poking through Ralan's in search of markets, because that's what I do when I'm, you know, not writing but should be. And I found a couple of contests I'd love to enter, both due in October.

Werewolves!

Post-apocalypse!

Both have word limits of 2,500, which you'd think I could bang out in a week or two. And I would.

IF I HAD PLOT.

I mean, I've written one werewolf story already, and that was just a blast. It's one of my favorites, in fact, so I'd love to do it again...if I had plot.

Which I don't.

And it's probably wrong that I'm intimidated by that one post-apocalypse story in the September 2007 issue of F&SF, John Langan's "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers," but I am because it's so fabulous and I really could never achieve something like that...even if I had plot.

Which I don't.

*ssssssiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhhhh*

It's like my writing font has dried up and blown away, y'all...

So much for finishing a story a month. I was hoping to up that to a story every two weeks, but at this rate I'll be lucky if I write anything more THIS YEAR.

Bah. *goes hunting inspiration*