A LOT OF GROUND TO COVER THIS WEEK, SO LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT!
I received a nice acknowledgement e-mail from the publisher I recently sent a writing contest entry to that they got my short story.
Still a long way off at this point from the submission deadline expiring, let alone a winner being announced, but considering past contests for other publishers I've competed in never paid entrants this courtesy...
If you're wondering why I still enter such contests to begin with, as a writer I'm always looking for new venues and creative opportunities so if I win, or at least "WOW" the judges enough for them to wonder what else I might have; it will be interesting to see what develops.
Still working on my SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL.
On Chapter 24 (not counting the Prologue) and have passed the 43,000 word mark.
Considering I'm hoping this will be the first book in an ongoing series, I won't have every plot point resolved by the last page, but the story certainly won't end with those dreaded words TO BE CONTINUED.
Man, I'm having more problems with that area than Japan does with Kaiju!😉 But this is why writers have beta-proofreaders, to catch such problems so they can be resolved long before the manuscript is submitted to and possibly rejected by a publisher because the errors weren't caught and corrected before sending it in.
Had a long story conference with Nancy Hansen this past week concerning the Mark Halegua Memorial Project.
When I finish making the corrections, Nancy will pick up where she left off and hopefully will have smooth sailing/reading from there.
As members of Team Blue, we have been working on finishing what would have been Mark's debut novel had he not been taken from the world prematurely last year. 😢
Mark was a friendly guy and very knowledgeable in regards to pulps past and present, which shows in the project he was working on.
It's set during the "Great" (quotation marks are mine because I've never been able to figure out what was so great about it) Depression and one man trying to make an honest living when...
In any event, I've obviously got to get back to writing now.
So take care.
STAY SAFE!😷
I'll see you around the Internet and—>
Lee Houston, Junior
9 May, 2021
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