Wow \u2026 I just realized it\u2019s been a whole month since I posted \u2013 Sorry y\u2019all! It\u2019s been a crazy few weeks and the time just got away from me. (Read \u201cFinding Time to Write,\u201d also posted today.)<\/p>\n
Truth is, in the last month, I finished a tiny revision on my novel and sent it out to Beta Readers (thanks to those dear, loving souls!). I finished one short story, revised another, and am writing two new ones (yes, both at the same time). I\u2019m querying three short stories to various magazines, as well as preparing my novel to submit to yet another querying process.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I read every chance I get. I tried my best to read Too Like the Lightning<\/em>, by Ada Palmer, but at 52% of the way through, I still had little or no idea what the heck was going on. (Look for a partial review coming soon.) So I cut my losses and started Stephen King\u2019s On Writing<\/em>, which is one of the most excellent books on writing I\u2019ve ever read. I subscribed to Ploughshares<\/em> magazine, a publication to which I\u2019d dearly love to submit (and be accepted), and read every single word of my first issue. I also subscribe to Analog<\/em>, and have read most of the May issue. I\u2019ve read online \u2018zines, too. In the beginning, it was an effort to find out what sorts of stories they\u2019d print. But there are so many good e-zines out there! It was hard to stop reading! I\u2019ll add their links to my links page ASAP.<\/p>\n In the meantime, I finished out the last two sessions of my Fiction Workshop at The Muse Center, both of which involved homework that filled an evening (or two). And those are just the writing activities.<\/p>\n So I\u2019ve been a little busy. Still, bad Drema \u2013 no cookie! I promise to try and do better to keep up the pace here on my site, too. I\u2019d like to post weekly, and will try to make Mondays my website night; stay tuned to see if I can make that work.<\/p>\n Thanks for sticking with me.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow \u2026 I just realized it\u2019s been a whole month since I posted \u2013 Sorry y\u2019all! It\u2019s been a crazy few weeks and the time just got away from me. (Read \u201cFinding Time to Write,\u201d also posted today.) Truth is, in the last month, I finished a tiny revision on my novel and sent it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n0kX-34","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2438,"url":"https:\/\/www.dremadeoraich.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/the-monster-under-my-desk\/","url_meta":{"origin":190,"position":0},"title":"The Monster Under My Desk","author":"DremaDeoraich","date":"December 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Being a writer is scary. 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