a bit of a hiatus: having spent a week cutting a novel manuscript down to 20,000 words for a comp, I find myself suddenly interested in housework, share trading, anything but writing. several rejections arriving on consecutive days hasn't helped.

and the editor of the best magazine to take my work so far, who'd invited me to send more, has moved on. so I'm feeling a bit depressed about it all. but I have all these stories sitting here, and have to send 'em somewhere.