I found out this week that my children's story placed 3rd in its category in a contest held by one of the writers' associations I belong to. It will be published in an anthology of the winners. I also get to participate in presentations/readings at local libraries with the other winners. The downside is that this will happen in January and I'm having surgery the day after I get back from New York. It took me a month to recover from the last one but this one should be less invasive. The timing sucks as I could either have the surgery the day after I get back, probably exhausted from the travel and time change, or have it the next week and then be too tired to do any of the readings. I'm hoping that I'll be able to be a slug for the few hours after I get home from NYC and won't go into the surgery as drained as I was in July after the writers' conference.
My writer's block for Angela is lifting. I'm getting to know her character better and am glad the block stopped me and caused me to refocus. She'd become way too wimpy before the block set in. I still get the feeling I won't really know her until I get to New York.
Take care and I'll write again soon.
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