OKAY LET’S TAKE A BREATH HERE (December 23, 2016) – Here’s the thing: It was coming and I knew it, but I’ve stalled on the novel. I have been writing, though. A lot. The short story bug (my main main main bug) hit pretty hard in about mid-November. This led to work on finishing about 20 short stories since that time. Added to this, and unlike the past two years or so, I also started submitting these stories to various journals for publication. Anyone who traffics in the submission process even a little will tell you that it is an unavoidable time suck. Necessary and important, but a bona fide sucker of time. The good news is that I’ve decided to abandon the goal of writing a 1,000-page novel. That’s a vanity project, let’s be honest. I’m thinking this book can be finished in about 100 more pages and now well before the first target of summer of ’17. 

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