Storytime

So, one of my goals for this month is to submit a piece of work. Very vague, as I have no idea what to submit nor to where. But I know it's time to start sending work out into the world. So I began last Friday. Began is the right word...I started to search for places for submissions...got side tracked...ended up on a garden site. Naturally I head out between showers to check out the garden. Yep still there. Still needs work. Back inside, after coffee and snack (can you have a cuppa without a snack? ) then yes I have found a place to submit. Then... Over the weekend I paint a Very Hungry Caterpillar. This week we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of this book, so I HAD to create a caterpillar that the kids at work can feed. How could I not? Monday and I have a few hours before work so I carefully go through some poems. Which ones to send? I have three selected to work on. I then head outside because... the rains have brought out a collection of funghi. ...

I have this story, it's a good story and I think it has a chance at publication. A friend of a friend mentions a publication is looking for stories...aha...time for my first submission for the year. First step is to find my story. I had saved it...of course I have saved it. But alas not by title. Ten minutes of searching and mild panic and it is found. Next step...now to the internet to make sure that said publication is still looking for stories. Forty minutes later, and much getting lost down the rabbit hole that is the internet (so many simple clicks can take you to so many places) and I have found that yes they are. So back to story. I check the word limit. Hmmmm...it is over by 85 words. Will they notice? I suppose they will. Time for a bit of tweaking. Subtle moving of words and taking away anything that doesn't work. Seventy five minutes later I have the story just below the word limit. Great. Time to send but wait.... Check that I'm meeting all...