I know, I shouldn't complain. But meeting deadlines is hard and I don't get up until noon. Still, I have managed to consent to be a presenter at the Muse Online Writers Workshop, it's free, which means I'm free, but it is not going to be easy. Not only will I be presenting, but I am available for the whole week on the chat board for questions. My topic: How do I use psychology in my writing ---and how you can too. This is going to be a book. It's already a chapter in a book, and a column in Apollo's Lyre, which I'm an Editor-in-Chief.

Meanwhile, I'm in a flash fiction critique group, which has taught me so much that I don't think I could make a short story long if I had to now. I just recently got a job that pays a small amount, and all I had to do was come up with a thousand words on their topic. ONLY a thousand. I couldn't do it. I tried. I really, really tried. Finally I turned in roughly 800 words and said not to pay me since it was my first job and I'd get the hang of it, but I should have definitely signed up for the shorter stories. Pay is less, but I could knock them out so much quicker.

I've actually started a query letter and proposal, having my readers help me with it, then decided it wouldn't be good, so I told them never mind, I'll resend and it will be better. Then all this other stuff started happening, and also I review books on a regular basis for a psychology site for a university. I get to pick the books, and the guy's great about it, so that's one gig I hope I never give up. Also, I hope to start subbing my flash somewhere because it's like poetry, it cuts to the chase so to speak.

That's it for now.