Nikki M. Pill

Frustrating, frustrating week.

I’ve made some progress in the names department. I find that I can’t really get rolling with a character until I have names. So I’m just about ready with the burlesque characters.

However — this week has been a big pile of aggravations at school and at work (like an email at 8pm at night saying “Hey Nikki, that thing you’ve been telling us about for six weeks is this weekend, shouldn’t you do a handout for that?” — a handout that would be done if someone had gotten back to me the third or fourth time I’d asked!). I decided to do some revisions on the Mythos Story.

Of course, the cats decided to act up this morning. Romer howled at the door. Milo chewed on electrical cords and knocked stuff over. I almost threw them out into the apartment hallway on three separate occasions.

Miraculously, I stuck with it. I re-read the Mythos story and got started on revisions. As I’ve discovered with previous stories, it’s better than I thought! Of course, there are HUGE gaps in this one. I really didn’t have my description hat on. But it’s a decent story, and I can work with it.

This weekend, I will carve out an hour to name the girls in the troupe, and start churning out some serious wordcount next week. Since I missed a month, I’ve increased my writing goals for my month of light schoolwork and my month of break. 2K/words per day or bust!

Woohoo!

My short story “Inner Potential” is officially published in Midnight Street Magazine. My first fiction credit since 2008!