A quick update from the Writing Spider:
1. I haven’t made much progress on my novel. I know, I know….my only (terribly weak) excuse is that work has gotten extra-busy lately and the last thing I can bear to do is come home and plop down in front of the PC for hours after 8 hours of doing just that at work. I shall remedy this forthwith.
2. I did enter an essay contest today. I wasn’t going to, and today is the deadline. I wrote 1,000 words in one day and turned it in two hours before the deadline. I have no chance of winning, but I want to enter as much as I can even if I won’t win. I’m not trying to be pessimistic, I’m just being realistic – you can’t win a contest writing 1,000 words in about four hours. Well, you can’t if you’re me. The point is not to win here.
3. I just finished reading A.J. Jacobs’ “The Know it All” and it was fantastic. Highly recommended reading.
4. I also finished a fairly substantial editing project today which is good since that’s kind of the Plan – be a fulltime writer/editor/word person. So…yay.
5. I submitted an essay to a local mag and was not selected for publication. Le boo. Whatever. Maybe next time.
The Writing Spider 
I’m proud of you for submitting. That puts you ahead of the pack. Too many would-be-anythings never actually try. Kudos!