Oh, Little Town of Sheridan...

I just realized... It's 3:20 AM on Easter morning, and I just now finished a short story revolving around witchcraft. How's that for weird timing?

The Witch of Sheridan Peak is finally (semi-)done. Now I've gotta type it up, send it to a select few readers, wake up in the morning, spend time with family, hope I have comments on how to fix the surely awful ending, revise it, and hopefully get a copy worthy of submission for publication done by tomorrow night.

I don't know if I'll ever write an entire short story by hand again... Though I'm kinda glad that I can now say I did.

Next? Get ready for an Awakening.

Happy Easter, everybody! Go out and hunt eggs, eat candy, and marvel at the fact that a guy rose himself from the dead... I mean, have you tried that? I'm sure it's tough. Probably a trick that will only be seen that once. Good thing we can still read about it.

Writing

No column from me today, apparently. I've yet to hear from Britney the answer as to why. Probably/hopefully just a delay that they neglected to tell me about.

So I'll just update you on a few writing related things, I suppose.

I went to a reading by Ron Carlson last night, which was pretty good. I was SUPPOSED to sit in on a class/workshop that he lead this morning, but this just had to be the one morning I somehow slept through the alarm that I was keeping right next to my head.

I had tried to set my body clock to wake me up no later than 9:30.

It woke me at exactly 10:30.

Apparently my body clock missed Daylight Savings Time or something.

While at the reading I finally met Stephen Graham Jones, who teaches here at Tech until the end of this semester. Seems like a super cool guy, and he agreed to meet with me sometime soon to talk. I want to ask him about writing and publishing, as he seems like he'd certainly know what he's talking about. Being nominated for the Bram Stoker award brings a certain amount of pedigree, you see.

Writing this semester has gone pretty well. I've made some serious progress on Tobias, which I should FINALLY be wrapping up in the near future. I also think I may have found a possible home for my short story Time Shop.

I'm also finally wrapping up the short story The Witch of Sheridan Peak, which will be sent who-knows-where.

After that? The Awakening, a new short story I'm about to start writing that will hopefully blow a mind or two. I intend for it to be my submission to Writer's of the Future. I think the writing of it could go fairly quickly.

In other news, to those who haven't been watching Lost: SHAME ON YOU! Last night's episode was fantastic.