I’ve been working on a couple of different nanofiction pieces for Trapeze’s Halloween contest. The hardest part of it for me is maintaining a focus within the speculative subgenre. The ones that I don’t submit I’ll probably post on here for anybody to see. For anybody whose interested, their contest rules can be found here. Also, I’m trying to prepare a piece of nonfiction I wrote last semester to be sent out to this undergraduate journal. It’s their inaugural issue, so it would be really awesome if they could mistake my piece for something good. The journal is called, “Catfish Creek” and is run by some faculty and students over at Loras College. Also, catfish is delicious… that might have been an incentive to submit the piece here. The publication was actually sent to my workshop class by our professor, so it wasn’t something that I’ve dug out of the Writer’s Market. I still don’t have the 2011 edition yet. =[
I just spent the last ten minutes looking through my books to find something short and rewarding that I can tackle this week. Between my classes, I have three books that need to be read for class, but I want some independent satisfaction that I started and finished something on my own. Don’t get me wrong, I love what I’m assigned to read, but I don’t want my mind to only associate this critical analysis stuff only with assignments. I think now that I’m in the literary theory frame of mind that it’s the best time to exercise it.
Stage Fright 