Lacklustre

Today was as lacklustre as yesterday. I didn't get around to posting as I was out late. I took bear to his pub quiz, then I hung around in a car park with my knitting until it was time to pick him up. It's one of those things where I could drop bear off, drive home, sit around for a short while, maybe half an hour, then go back out, drive back, pick bear up and drive home, with each leg 12 to 15 miles, depending on the route. Or I could drop him off, settle down in a nearby car park and knit and read in peace and quite until it's time to pick him up, only travelling maybe a total of four or five miles depending on the car park. So the only thing of note that I've managed is some cold weather knitting. I decided to abandon the shrug, start again with the blue yarn and I'm hoping that I'll get a blanket out of it.

As a reminder to myself, here is the hat I knitted years ago. It's still soft, fluffy and wonderfully warm. 

So some of my knitting really does come in useful. I snuggled down with a blanket I knitted on my lap, the fluffy hat on my head and a sense of peace. 

Writing stuff - I think that I wrote that there was a call for submissions where the guidelines were wonderful but I only had a day or two to write the story, and I wasn't expecting it to be accepted? It wasn't accepted and I understand why. It was set in the world of Out of the London Mist and it's hard for something like that to fit an anthology as a standalone story. I'm half tempted to bung it on my writing blog, but it's near enough 4,000 words which is a big story to read online like that. I could definitely expand it to novella size, which is around 10,000 words and publish it on Amazon, but I'm easily distracted and it would potentially take me away from other stuff that I'd like to do. I found four places where I could submit stories from Authors Publish magazine which is a free ezine and I've found very helpful. As ever, I find a potential place then try and write to order, which means I've got around 30,000 words to write before the end of the month, plus some interesting research, just for those. By the time I've finished those (if I even get it finished), I'll probably have forgotten all about it. Whatever I decide, if I do something, I'll share. 

Hugs and good health to all.