Clare L. Deming

Well, it’s a new year and I’m only a month behind in pointing that out. I’ve been quite busy for the last six or eight months, and I’m sorry to say that my blog here has suffered from that inattention. It’s partly due to a new job and the demands on my time that came with that, and partly from adjusting to the way my sleep patterns have changed with the new job. I’ve worked nights for several years, but the hours are a bit different and I’m having to regiment my sleep better. Add some stress to that, along with holidays and some other things, and my writing has suffered all around.

I’d like to think that I’m back on track now, but we’ll see how it goes.

I’m back to reading more regularly, participating in my online critique group, and I have two stories that I’m actively working on. One is an older story that I never finished. It needed to be reworked and it still needs an ending. The other story… I think it wants to be a novel, but that’s the last thing I need. I have so many unfinished novels in my files that if I managed to finish them all, I would never have time to write anything else.

On the reviewing front, I’ve had a change there as well. The site that I used to write reviews for has changed its focus and will no longer be featuring book reviews. I still like reviewing (and hey, I get some free books), so I’m in the process of setting up some alternatives in that area. I might even post an occasional review here, rather than link to them elsewhere.

In other endeavors, I’m helping out with a new online magazine – Fantasy Scroll Mag. The first issue is in the works and the magazine is open to submissions, paying 1c/word.

And sometime soon, I should have a new story appearing in print. YAY! It was accepted a year ago, so this isn’t really new news, but I’ll be happy to see it finally published. I’ll post more details when it happens though.

That’s it for today! Back to writing…