Outlook is good (except for the weather)

Today is a beautiful sunny day in the South. I fear for next week though, as Ivan is tracked to head up the gulf and into the Carolinas. I don’t like the path I’m seeing on the local news channels. I always have water and such and we have a generator and a gas grill, so if Ivan spins this way, I’ll handle him.

StorySouth rejected my submissions two days after I submitted them. So, my revised submissions are now even shorter:

1 poem to Wildchild Publishing
1 poem to Slowtrains
1 poem to Skyline Publishing
1 short story to Bellevue Literary Review

I have written 500 words of a new short story. I find it appropriate as it is a ghost story. I hope to get it finished this week and send it out to Wildchild and Emerging Women Writers.

I was only partially successful on my goals from last week:

2 Issues of Blood on an Appalachian Sunset – Yep, finished this one
1 New Short Story or rewrite of a current one – 500 words – so I’ll count this one as a yes
2 Chapters of my novel – Not a chance
Find a Job – had one awesome interview
5 Suburban Mom Dairies entries – I completed only 2.

New goals for next week of 9/13/04:

3 Issues of Blood on an Appalachian Sunset
Finished and submit new short story
Submit 5 poems for publication
2 Chapters of my novel
3 Suburban Mom Dairies

I need to buckle down and write / edit / submit every minute I have. The kids have games every night of the week but that’s only three hours out of my day.

I’ve been to the grocery store and cut the grass. I need to weed-whack but that will have to wait. I have to take my youngest daughter to softball practice and come home and make some dinner. The local grocery store and buy-one-get-one free on the jumbo shrimp and crabcakes so guess what the family is having for dinner.

I had a rant about the 9/11 victim families and the enormous government payouts they received, but deleted the text as it served no useful purpose. Some opinions are best kept to myself.

The only thing I have to do next week is write, go to ball games, and look for a job. I pray the procrastination bug don’t come a creeping!

BK