Short Stories Again

I’m back to entering short story contests which honestly, is fine with me. I was working on the second Mustard Prince novel, but with it having no deadline, I was finding motivation and consistency lacking. Participating in short story contests turns up the sense of urgency that I need to write consistently and makes me conform to a deadline.

I’m still sending query letters out to literary agents at the same time. That hasn’t changed. At the same time that I got back into short stories is the same time that I realized that I need to change up these query letters. If agents have critiques of query letters online somewhere, then that’s the template necessary to write a query letter specifically to a particular literary agent.

Short stories are fun. I like fantasy, but I venture into the mundane as well. I used my travels to the Philippines as inspiration for the setting of a new short story that I’m writing. I like to experiment with different writing techniques or focus with short stories when I can.