Level Best Writing

I started work on a short story yesterday, on the writing part that is. I've been plotting it out for a few months now. I intend to submit it to a local publisher for possible inclusion in a yearly anthology of short mystery fiction. I've found it a good challenge. I'm used to writing longer pieces of fiction and this is really forcing me to focus in and move quickly.

I also started a new blog (several, actually). In this case I'm referring to a sleep journal or - more accurately - an insomniac journal. It's a podcast mostly, since I'm not about to turn on a computer and start typing at 2:45 in the morning. I can blather into a digital recorder and then upload it, though. So, that's what I've been doing. You can visit me at any time of the day or night at:

http://midnightjournal.podbean.com/

Unfortunately, I'm posting to it rather regularly these days. That can't be good.

But, to make lemonade out of lemons, insomnia will be the focus of the short mystery story I'm writing. So - there!