How did this happen? I'm utterly exhausted. I think I could sleep a week away and I'd still be tired. Argh! I need more time in the day, which means I can't waste what I have sleeping, but that's exactly what I've been doing all week.

In any case, I've just finished my final revision of "Give and Take" and sent it off to F&SF. We'll see how that goes. It's a bit darker than their usual fare, but it seems like it would still be a good fit if they like it. This is one of the stories that I workshopped at Stonecoast and I received some great feedback. Learning how to incorporate workshop feedback is an interesting process. You can't take it all. So what do you take? This is a difficult question, especially when the feedback you receive is from someone you highly respect.

I think the only solution is to find what resonates most with what you're trying to do with the story. So, I took their advice and ruthlessly cut some of my favorite stuff, added in some new prose, and left a few items that I felt needed to remain. I'm really curious to see how others react to the story. Hopefully, this story is an improvement. I feel like it's better, but sometimes it's just too difficult to judge "level of improvement" for myself.

On the reading front, I've just finished Jurassic Park, which was a heck of a lot of fun to read! Now, I'm starting on Alice in Wonderland. I've got the Penguin edition, which has an introduction by Hugh Haughton. The introduction has blown my mind. I wish I could say more, but I won't until after I've read the book completely. I love good books with scholarly introductions!

Yikes! It's 9:05! I better get to work. Have a great day everyone.