February 21, 2001
I find myself revisiting the
I find myself revisiting the same themes over and over again in my stories, and I wonder why that is. I don't just mean selkie stories and myth (although the newest thing I'm working on is yet another selkie story), but family relationships as a whole. I'm seeing patterns, and I'm wondering why...
Local literary contest. (If I
Local literary contest. (If I had a web address for it, I'd post it.) Fiction: 2500 words. Entries due March 23. Cash prize as well as publication. Am I wrong to retool something I wrote long ago but have never done anything with? I'm itching to enter this. Even if I don't win, what the hell? I'd only be out the $5 entry fee.
I don't know exactly what
I don't know exactly what I wanted to say, except that I wanted to say something. I've been remarkably content lately. There are any number of things I could attribute this to, I may try to do that later. Everyone I've talked to thinks grad school is marvelous idea, except for one. That one is really bothering me.