UPDATES & First Submission

I recently submitted my first piece of work for judging.  I wrote a short story for a statewide contest.  It's been quite a long time since I had written any kind of short story and it was harder to stay within their word limits than I thought but I must say I'm pretty proud of my work. The first round of judging won't happen until the end of the year so I have a long while of waiting to see if I've been lucky enough to be a finalist. In the meantime I'm still working my fingers off to get my first novella through edits and rewrites.  Beta reading has gone well and I look forward to seeing it out in the world.