Being that it's Spring Break, I have taken a few days off work to catch up on my drinking. But now I'm ready to write again. For this next week, I'm turning my focus away from the novel and onto two concerns: one, my malaprops reading on the 16th; two, trying to get "Silent Blue" published. The other day I spent some time poring over websites and I found seven interesting journals I'd like to submit to. I was going to send the story how it is, but after I re-read it a little, I decided it could use another quick revision to sculpt the language a little more. So that's one thing I'm working on this week. The other is revising and rewriting "The Catskills" which I am planning to read at Malaprops. I think today I will work on the latter project.