MatthewWuertz

I’m still working on the first draft to my latest fantasy short story.  It’s currently approaching 5K, and I still have a little ways to go on it.  Optimistically, the draft might be complete by August, but I’m not sure if I can pull that off or not.

I’m still working on the first draft of the new fantasy tale, and it continues to shape itself into something over 5K (though I’m not that far into it yet).  I’m trying to add much more fantastic elements into this story than previous tales in this particular series.  I also sat down earlier today and typed out an opening for a new fantasy short story so that I’d have it down.  It seems my fiction writing pendulum has swung heavily towards the fantasy side at the moment.

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.

I'm continuing to work on a rough draft of my latest fantasy tale.  I think it's going well for the most part.  Progress is progress.

I’ve been pretty behind with writing projects for the past month, but as life is becoming more organized and we continue to adjust to a new person living with us, things will get better.  Today I submitted three short stories that have been waiting to go back out to fresh markets for several weeks.  Usually I can redirect a story back out within the same day of receiving a rejection, but I couldn’t keep up in December.  Time to get life (not just writing life) back on track.  Huzzah to 2009!

I’ve put the recently completed rough draft of the time travel story aside so that it can age like a fine wine.  Actually, I’m just hoping to distance myself from it long enough that I can edit objectively.  In the meantime, I began a new fantasy short story with one of my favorite protagonists.  He hasn’t seen the light of print yet, so he’s still unknown to the general public, but he’s very near to my heart because I expose a lot of my weaknesses through his character.  I'm looking forward to exploring him some more.