Two weeks have raced by, and already it’s time for another Words Like Trees post. I’m feeling back to normal after covid, today (Saturday) I am on the bus towards Stryn to ski for four days with students. For the first time, I am writing a blog post on my phone.
This is my fourth time making this journey, three hours north from campus, around the tip of the Nordfjord, then up into the mountains.
It is raining here, unfortunately, but the snow is deep. I’m hoping it will cool down during the next few days, or that it will be at least less wet.
In the day or two after my last post, I threw myself into finishing a short story draft. It’s a story I began in December based on a prompt for that month’s Furious Fiction contest. I wasn’t able to make the deadline for the contest, but I kept working with the material for the story and finally completed it. Last weekend, then, I workshopped the story with my writing group.
Since then, I’ve been working on revising an earlier short story. I’ve read through the feedback from my writing group and made a revision plan. Now I’m in the process of rewriting in a new document. I’ve been having trouble keeping my short stories short. My target is around 3500 words, but both of these that I have been working on are clocking in the neighborhood of 5000 or a bit more.
Writing a post on the phone is definitely affecting what I’m writing. I’m less picky with my wording. I’m writing in a freer, less organized way. Practically speaking I’m finding it difficult to add links to earlier posts and judge the lengths of my paragraphs.
I’m looking forward to the next few days of skiing, and after that my husband and I will take a trip to the town of Lom again for a few days, like we did last year. Then I’ll have the following week off while students are doing a Model United Nations simulation and a first aid course. Hopefully I’ll get some good writing done during that time.
Best wishes to you all for the coming weeks,
Jimmy
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