you’ll notice that in my “goals” post for the year I did not mention “update blog regularly” as a goal. That is because there was no way to make it a goal (I originally typed “gaol”–how appropriate!) without interfering with two other goals–writing, and getting through my day job with a modicum of grace.

So here I am with the erratic posting. And today I’m just going to mention that Ornithology–which has been given the temporary title of “The Making of Jenny Keeble”–finaled in NTRWA’s Great Expectations contest.

Aside from, uh, the Golden Heart, this is the first contest I’ve entered these pages in. Notice I do not say, the first contest in which I’ve entered Ornithology–I entered the much older version in one (or is it two? Honestly, I don’t remember because I’ve blocked out the results) contest before. The judges were really unimpressed. So it’s nice to know that the completely rewritten pages have made a difference. Whew. I did not just waste those many hundreds of hours on the rewrite. At some point in the future, I may actually end up posting a blurb and an excerpt. But–that will have to wait until I’m not completely overwhelmed.

Here’s hoping that everyone else has been having a wonderful and productive 2008 so far! I suck at posting, but I’m not really going to get better anytime in the next few months. Maybe later….

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