For reasons best known to herself, the Luscious One has remained married to me for six years, and as a reward for her perseverence, the big kids sent us to Busselton for the weekend of our anniversary whilst they toiled like slightly emo Trojans to build us a vegetable garden in the back yard-- no mean feat, as there appears to be a solid layer of sandstone about a foot under our garden beds.
So with nothing to do but laze about for three days enjoying the sun and sand and each other's company, it was a perfect opportunity to take the laptop and get some writing done. In amongst the cafes, splashing about in the pool, cafes, walking up and down the jetty, cafes, art galleries, museums, cafes and the pool.
And done it was. The submission package for Corpse-Rat King was finalised, and sent out in time to catch Angry Robot's open submission period. And two short stories were completed: the 3000 word psychological fairy story Unseelie and 1500 words of 2nd-person POV called Ghosts of You.
With a quarter of the year gone I'm well and truly on top of my writing goals for the year-- the original aim was to send out Corpse-Rat King (done); write 6 new shorts (the above two plus the recently completed Attacking Waters makes it 5 and counting) and complete Father Muerte & The Divine (52K done so far).
Not bad at all.
Oh, and Busselton was bloody lovely :)
Feeling no pain.
Lyn, cracking up from the stress of 6 years marriage, and the horror of being in a seaside town in perfect weather with nothing to do but relax and enjoy herself. The poor thing. Still gorgeous, though :)
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