I was looking at the details for submissions to the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, and I realized that for some reason I thought the limit was 5,000 words, rather than the 2,500 it actually is. Unfortunately the story I had been planning to submit is already over 3,400. With little time left, I don't plan on editing it down to the right size, so after all that struggle challenging myself to come up with a story that was more upbeat and positive (and not succeeding there either, as the story has taken a decidedly dark bent) I'm going back to the story that I wrote for the writing prompt exercise. This probably wouldn't have happened if I had been more productive with my writing time in the past few weeks. Two things that certainly didn't help: starting a new day job and the Olympics!
Someone once told me that "the writing process is a battle against procrastination." Yes, indeed.
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