It's been a nothing sort of day, with mainly writing stuff, then I took bear to his quiz night before sitting down to some knitting in a car park. I couldn't settle to knitting though, and the most memorable part of the evening was when a small black cat trotted across the car park in front of me.
The story that I submitted at the start of last month was rejected with a lovely email. I'm not really surprised as they wanted mouth watering and I'm not sure that I knew where to start with that. The trouble was, I'd seen a call for submissions in another magazine, but it was strongly vegan and pagan, and I'm Christian and I eat meat. The story was niggling at me like crazy, even though I didn't feel I could contribute to that particular magazine. So when I saw the prompt for mouthwatering, I couldn't help but write it. I felt it was okay for the prompt, but I wasn't shocked when it came back, if you see what I mean. The worst thing about it was the battle to get the thing formatted.
I kind of like the story and I kind of think that it's done. I want it out of my head in order to think of other things, so I've posted it on my blog here. And as the above picture is so poor, here's the pic that goes with the story on my blog.
Tomorrow has to include chillies.
Hugs and good health to all.
Maybe make up a story around the chillies, it might give you a motive to plant them lol.
ReplyDeleteI can neither confirm nor deny that I may or may not have started such a story...
DeleteMaybe write a plot around the Chillies, might give you impetus to plant them lol x
ReplyDeleteAs the previous reply, I can neither confirm nor deny that I may or may not have started such a story...
DeleteSorry the story was rejected, but at least you submitted it! Hope Bear had fun at the quiz night.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that I submitted it and got that story out of my head. Bear had a blast as usual.
DeleteI liked the picture of the car park and the black cat. It reminded me of Kipling's story about the cat that walked by himself. :)
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't worry about planting the chilies right now; I might wait until March to do so, myself.
I think that Kipling portrayed cats perfectly in that. This one was quite self assured and moving with a purpose far beyond mere humans.
DeleteI'm sick to death of reading novels aimed at women that have quite graphic sex scenes. Publishers seem to think we all want to read that kind of stuff. I simply skim past it.
ReplyDeleteYES!!! I read a lot of romance novels on Kindle Unlimited, and I swear that I end up skipping a quarter of some of those novels. Sometimes I end up missing important parts of the story because I didn't want to wade through the biological sticky bits. It's the whole self publishing market though. It's seen as one of the things that has to be included. There are whole seminars and courses about formula writing for women and the whole 'insert tab A into slot B' thing is practically compulsory.
DeleteWould gentle love scenes work. I think I could stomach something a bit gentle. I can't abide reading the bump and grind stuff.
DeleteI think that there's room for them, and I'd rather write something like that. If you see any Essie Summers books out there, she writes good characters, often complicated plots and zero sticky bits. It's dated, but a cracking read.
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