Juggling

It's been an odd few days for me.  I have five short stories on the go plus I need to put some time aside to rewrite parts of my novel. I've never had so many projects on the go at once before.  But it's fun.  I have competition deadlines looming but for once I don't feel panicked by them.  By working on more than one project, as a friend suggested, I find my imagination is much sharper as my time on each piece of work is restricted.  Okay, I don't use any sort of alarm  my brain just seems to know when or if its had enough of a certain story.  So instead of being disappointed and beating myself up for not putting the time into my work I can simply move on to another story waiting in the wings for some care and attention. 

As you will know I had no luck with my novel 'A Different Corner' in the Richard & Judy competition but after trawling through the internet and my writing magazines I have found a few other novel competitions.  I just need time to read through them and choose the competition which best suits me.  I am not ready to give up on my novel yet and I certainly didn't put all that effort only to give up at the first hurdle.