Tyree sent back the Duke’s Left Eye with a “no”. He noticed (rightly) that the story is a fragment from a larger piece and that it would make much more sense if all the suggested plot points were explored.

Unfortunately, the story is 3800 words and reaching the top limit of a short story that editors will look at. I have zero chance of selling a novella. This story combined with “Through the Stone Gate” is the third novel of my witch heroine. I should try writing an interstitial chapter to see if I can do a chapter that is not structured like a short story.

The Scottish tale is the only story out right now, and if it get’s rejected, I don’t know where else to send it. That leaves me with about 30 unfinished stories, 6 trunked stories and nothing to submit. I have published 17 stories, 12 of them for pay. (This does not count flash.)

I started seriously writing around the middle of summer last year and I have been writing for over a year. I have not written much lately except synopsi and beginnings. Is it time to move on? I have done the writing thing and I might always take some time to write a story, but it has been an obsession too long. I need to be obsessed with something else.