More on me

So after my initial decision to write, I got lucky.  I took an online course, read books, and began.  My goal was a simple one:  just get one story published, and then I'd feel like I didn't have to feel guilty about spending my days sitting at the computer writing.  I got lucky, and the third story I attempted sold to a little print magazine that has since, sadly, folded (NOT my fault, I promise!).  Then came another sale, and another, and a few more after that, all to small semi-pro's, mostly ezines.  I started off last year with my first pro-rate sale, to Fantasist Enterprises, and then a big fat zero after that.  Yikes.  Of course part of that I attribute to a sad lack of motivation on my part -- I really didn't finish many stories last year, either.  I don't know what happened.

The hardest part of writing for me (after plotting!) is revising.  I end up getting myself so confused on which direction to go and what changes to make and where to make them and then it's hard to figure out if the story even makes sense or not anymore and then a new story bursts into the old brain and begs for attention and the old one languishes, alone and ignored in favor of the bright new one.  Poor old things.  

So that's my goal for this year:  to get those old stories dusted off and revised and submitted.  Except I have one new story that I have to get revised and subbed by mid-April and another that I haven't even started on yet that's due by May.  So after May, those old stories will get trotted out.  Promise. 

The other thing you should know about me is that I became a first-time grandma last week.  Hunter is adorable; the cutest sweetest baby ever -- even better than his daddy!  So yeah, he's going to be taking up a lot of my time.

Things I hate:  dyeing my hair!  Ok, I may be a grandma, but I refuse to look like one.  But I'm beginning to think that the $$$ to have my hairdresser do it might be very well spent after all.