Well, I survived. I only wrote three stories clocking in at about 20,000 words, but considering that the class as a whole produced 600,000 words that I had to read and critique in only six weeks, I certainly can't say I slacked off. And while two of my stories will need major revisions, the last of the bunch, a science fiction piece called "The Four Hundred Thousand", is much closer to being submission-ready. I'll start working on it next week, with the intentions of sending it out in early September.

This week I'm concentrating on getting back into the swing of things at work, and rearranging my apartment so I have a better workspace for writing. I'm also making a very few changes to one of my Clarion stories, the Mythos piece "Take Your Daughters To Work", and sending it out next week. I've got a number of other stories in the queue, either to be revised or rewritten - and I'm going to finalize the outlines I made for my erotic novella trilogy. While I don't think that erotica will be the primary genre I write in, I still want very much to finish the novellas, and to write the occasional story whenever an idea crops up.

I'm also going to be taking a look at a novelette I wrote almost two years ago, called "The Girls of the World" - it's a steampunk horror piece with giant biomechanical spiders, prissy robot women, and deformed children. I want to expand it into a much longer novella, hopefully something I can sell as a stand-alone piece. Hopefully. We'll see.