MatthewWuertz

The time travel story needs something more.  I’m not sure what to do with it just yet, so I’m pushing it aside for a while until I have a chance to think through things.  I’m still cleaning the fantasy story, but I think I’m close to finishing it.  After that, I’m going to clean up an older fantasy story that’s been hanging in limbo for too many months.

The past week and weekend gave me ample opportunity to work on my latest fantasy and science-fiction short stories.  The time travel story is at a place where I need to read it aloud and hopefully bounce it off someone for some feedback.  The fantasy story went through the big sweeping changes edit, so there’s still a lot of cleanup work left to do.  I think that by the end of March (if not sooner), both stories will be in submission queues somewhere.  Then I must consider my next project…

I started editing my time travel story last night.  I spent more time checking terminology than correcting the story itself.  Perhaps this story will kindle an interest in writing historical fiction, something I’ve only attempted once before.  I enjoy history, so I wouldn’t be surprised if I meddle in the genre at some point.

I’m excited about selling a science-fiction story to Aoife’s Kiss.  This is the first story I’ve sold that wasn’t fantasy, and it’s nice to have a sense of validation for writing in a different genre.  The story is titled “fc01a9” and will be published in September, 2009.  This was not the latest science-fiction story I finished; in fact, the two are completely unrelated.