Busy Times

I've perhaps bitten off more than I can chew for the next month and a half. I'm signed up for half a dozen scenes for the theater retrospective in a couple of weeks and have a lot of songs and dialogue to learn. In August I've been cast in two short, one act plays for another production.

In the meanwhile, I've got to get something ready to work on at my writing workshop in Canada in a few weeks, and my Spanish discussion group is up and running with its second meeting this afternoon.

Part of my writing difficulty right now is not knowing what to work on. I signed with a new agent last month for a collaboration with a friend of mine but haven't heard back anything more from the agent about what changes, if any, he'd like to see before it goes on submission. Optimistically speaking, the book will sell and I'll work on another science thriller. As the publishing industry works, I'll be writing more of whatever sells first.

If it doesn't sell, however, I've got a historical espionage that I'd like to write, just for variation. I guess I could write a short story for the workshop, but I just can't muster any enthusiasm anymore for short fiction. I used to write a lot of it, but the short fiction markets are almost dead and I wasn't particularly good at short stories anyway.