So an update is due, I think, on Jill-Elizabeth Progress. Here goes:

As I alluded last week, I have been spending pretty much all of my writing time working on cleaning up short stories lately. I’ve been surprised at how much I’m enjoying going back over things I’ve written - and how humbling it is. I haven’t been writing for that long, but already it seems like I’ve learned so much: the difference between story-telling and story-writing, the adverb death knell, keeping the pace and the words even, writing in my own voice even when the characters are completely un-Jill-Elizabeth-like. I’ve been surprised at how many wildly divergent directions I’ve written so far. Very surprised, especially because I must admit there was even one so far (teehee) that stymied me - I couldn’t remember the ending. The ending I wrote. The ending I wrote less than a year ago. (Actually, that one may be less of a “teehee” than a “DOH!” Seriously - who forgets their OWN story?! Sigh.)

This has all been a good thing.
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