This is just a short note about what I’m currently working on.

As of right now, I have ten short stories out on submission calls, so fingers crossed. I’m hoping for at least 3 to get accepted, but we’ll see. Going 0 for 10 sounds horrible, but given my luck, I wouldn’t be too surprised. Actually, I’m of the stories, 3 or 4 of them in particular,  so I worry I may be a little too confident. Hopefully, I’ll get a couple acceptances, but any that aren’t will get another edit and then sent back out.

NaNoWriMo-

This is my first year doing NaNo WriMo. So far, 6 days in and I’m just over 12500 words. Shooting for 60k. I’m cheating a bit, though. I’ve been planning to turn a 20k crime story I wrote last year into a novel, and that’s what I’m doing. I’ve got my old story, and a handful of notes on expansion and changing up the ending. Unlike most of my work, there is no supernatural aspect anywhere in this story–It’s straight crime/noir set in a small town in the rural south. My working synopsis is below.

“These Muddy Waters.” When bodies start turning up in a small southern town, Mal and Jay set out to find the murderer, but family blow-ups, prostitutes, and drug dealers get in the way. Will Mal or Jay be able to do what the police can’t or will the murderer move on to kill again?

That’s it for me. What are you working on? Any NaNo WriMo vets out there with tips? Anyone looking for writing buddies?

Charlie