Okay, I am in deadline hell. I have two novellas to get to Cobblestone by November and I’m thinking about adding in a short story submission to the mix. These characters just won’t go away.
Back in May, I had the idea for this story. I knew what I wanted to do with it, I knew the characters and their names and their conflict. This story was for Ellora’s Cave Cavemen anthology. Easy-peasy, right? Wrong. I got requests for other stories and I decided to put this story off until next year rolled around. This contest comes every year, so if it was a good story now, it’d be a good story then.
Except.
Except now this story keeps nagging at me. Bugging me. Wanting to be written right now. The EC entries aren’t due until September 30, so techincally I have time. And cranking out a 10-12K story I know this well shouldn’t be a problem, but I have another story due in early September and another one the first of November. So. Adding the EC story will mean I have a month for each story. I could probably do it, but I have to keep my poor hands and wrists in mind while I plan to torture with an overabundance of work.
So, am I crazy to think I could do this or just plain cuh-razy to even attempt it?
Stay tuned to find out.
