04/30/00 -- So much for April

Where did the time go?

April's been a pretty slim month as far as this journal goes.   I seemed to have lost track of time.  I guess most of it went into work and into maintaining the ce2k pages (go check them out)... Oh, and into starting and finishing a story.

Yep, I finally finished a story.  I thought it was going to be something close to 5,000 words.  I guess 12,000 is close to 5,000 ... for some definition of close.

I've got a handful of story starts that I still need to do something with.  Maybe finish them.  Or maybe I'll just hold onto them and bring them with me to Clarion.  I don't know.

A handful of the folks going to Clarion East are worried about being able to turn out a story a week.  They're worried about running out of ideas.

I'm not worried about ideas.  I can find ideas.  I'm worried about turning them into a decent story (or even a finished story that isn't decent).  That seems to have been my biggest challenge lately.  I've started things.  I've got ideas for other things.  And other than the story I finished last week (and my writer's duet and a micro story on the Rumormill), I haven't finished anything I've started this year.

I'm sure I've whined about this before, so I'll stop now.

And maybe I'll be more talkative in May.