Fall In

Well here we are in the month of September and ready to move into a whole new series of projects, while not leaving behind the last one completely.
Begging or not I want to drum up a few more donations for my charity (http://www.firstgiving.com/rovingjack)
while I edit a few of them and prepare them for sending out to publishers.

You see I’ve set this up as my editing month. Some of my goals on my master list involve editing and submitting works and that is what I will do this month. Two short stories at least from the past month and my winning NaNoWriMo from last year are my goal for submissions by the end of the month. But there is also an important script to edit too.
A year ago this past June I had rediscovered the NaNoWriMo pages and beaten myself up for not remembering it in time to participate, but I had discovered its sister site, Scriptfrenzy. I’d committed myself to doing that. I’d a script planned out and a schedule of writing times to get to it. I procrastinated much as I did with some of my stories this past month. I saw the deadline approaching and decided that I wanted to do an entirely different script.
I sat down and began to write, and set a fantastic pace. I was completely in the writing experience, enjoying it when I wasn’t struggling with unemployment requirements for benefits and help looking for another job. But then something happened. I got sick. Very sick. The kind of sick that nobody ever wants to get. And it all fell apart.
I never finished that script, I never got another job and ended up working back at the university when it reopened in the fall; but the latter was less saddening for me. I still am sick to some degree and it’s something that will be with me as long as I live, and all the struggles that entails, but I’ve begun to learn how to live with it.
Right next to my bed sits the unfinished script. And I want to be able to say at the start of November or even better, the end of this month that next to my bed sits the finished script. I’m no script writer and I’m not sure if it might someday sell, one could hope, but I do need to finish that script.
If for no other reason than to set the mood for the sequel I have in mind. J
I have a total of sixteen goals this month, some of them stubborn hold outs from last month, but that one is the most important to me. Finish what I began and to also take that leap and see if I can be a published writer.
I’m thinking it would be fun to ask the publishers if they’d be willing to publish my works under this name (Roving Jack), so that I can let you all know where to look, and the readers of the stories could join us in the goals and future adventures.
There you have it. I’ll be taking care of some errand tomorrow but expect a new Post By Saturday at the latest.

Until then, Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack