My writing efforts in September
Once more it has been a while since my last post. I have been extremely busy writing and doing other writerly things, as you will see in my update for October. But this post is about September. In September my Ulcerative Colitis decided to remind me of its existence, so I had to take some medicine, which made me extremely tired for just over half the month. At the beginning of September, I was writing a short story for a Christmas anthology that a few members of the Australian Writers Forum are creating. I finished the first draft of the story on the same day I started taking the medication. The story at that stage was 9,800 words, 3,800 words over the suggested word limit. I redrafted the story over the next few days, reducing it to 7,400 words. I then printed it out, proofread and edited it many times over the next couple of weeks. I found a lot to change each time, and eventually reduced the story to 7,200 words. On the last day of the month, I fina...