Good News

I can’t believe I have neglected my Blog for this long. Today I received some wonderful news. A few months back I wrote a flash fiction for a contest, The WOW Women on Writing Spring 2008 Flash Fiction Contest. It was my first attempt at flash fiction and I was quite nervous. My entry made it past the first round judging. I know that isn’t that big of an accomplishment but it is much better than receiving news that it didn’t. From here, literary agent Wendy Sherman will narrow down the entries to the top ten. My fingers are crossed, I don’t have too high of hopes, because I know that I made one typo, I used where instead of were. It was such a silly careless mistake and I should have caught it one of the numerous times I reread it and one of my friends should have caught it when they proof read it but it slipped through the cracks. Hey, even JK Rowling probably made a few little mistakes like that though, right?

Yesterday was my first day of no longer being a full time employee, that means I will have more time to devote to house hold managing, my family and of course my writing. I have been working on my novel in the form of research. I like to write out a back-story on my characters, even if the information in it never reaches the pages. Creating their own story allows me to step in their shoes better than if I am just creating them as I go. Lately, I have been tackling Tetsu Tokudaiji (originally, she was Tao Chan.) She probably requires the most research because she dates back to the Heian Period (794-1185ad) in Japan. Needless to say that is a lot of history to work around, but fortunately the more I read the more I realize the Tetsu’s role was already very much suited to what history and research would dictate she be like, even though I had no clue of that when I wrote her in.

Well I am going to hit the tub and relax.