Man, I Feel Like A Writer

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 Doo, doooo, doo, doo, doo-doo.

On Monday, my most recent humor piece, Sure, You're Going to LOVE Being a Grandmother: But let me give you some advice was published at Frazzled, possibly my favorite publication at Medium.

I also received my hard copy of the Stonecoast Review in which my short story What We Do appears, as well as a copy of The Authors Guild Bulletin. No, I don't have any writing in that, but it is hold-in-your-hand evidence that I'm a member and arriving the same day as Stonecoast Review, as it did, makes me feel very writery.

On top of all that, I got two rejections within a couple of hours on Sunday, just the day before. Rejections are a good thing. Not great, of course, but good, because they indicate you're working. You're in the game.

While none of what I experienced Monday involves the contracts and book reviews and appearances of days-of-old, they are work activity. They are the work activity of a short-form writer.