I signed up for A Big Leap mental workout thing run by Suzy Greaves – you got a free 3 week programme if you sponsored her in the London Marathon. You have to do an exercise a day and complete a blog post on the site. I’ve stuck to it this week, which is an achievement for me. But today I couldn’t partake as I had a shit day emotionally. Still disappointed that I didn’t make the shortlist of the Bath Short Story Award – had two stories on the longlist so I thought/hoped/prayed that the odds might have been a little kinder to me- but no, neither story had the legs to continue. I know this happens when you start to put yourself out there and that was my intention – get a fistful of decent stories and hurl them at the wall of competitions and by the laws of stickiness a percentage will remain stuck. It worked – had 3 longlistings now and one shortlisting. It’s my first real organised attempt at short story stomping and it’s working BUT I need to up the level and get in the final list. The list that carries weight and possibly publication and lucre… Much as I love it I do want to earn money from it. So felt shit anyway and then my sweet Mollycat turned serial creature killer and I had a mouse head on the kitchen floor yesterday and tonight I came in to find a poor hatchling of a blackbird. So brand new it was the eyes weren’t open, the feathers weren’t grown and no wings – pure Jurassic mini dinosaur anatomy. It was heartbreaking because it was perfect – only sign of trauma two tiny piercings (incisor teeth me thinks) on back of skull and high. More heartbreaking was the sight of he mother blackbird hopping and fluttering around the garden in search of its baby. Reader I cried.
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