Published a Short Story...

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Good afternoon (or whatever time of day/night it is when you're reading this). I do sincerely hope that you are all well. I'm not too bad. A few frustrations regarding work and my own lack of organisational skills that mean I haven't managed to complete as many writing tasks as I should have. Otherwise, not too bad. I'm still working from home, and have been for a little over 3 months now, I think. I don't mind it - it's saving me money on bus fares and it's saving 3+ hours a day by not having to go anywhere. It does also mean that I'm not getting outside as much, though, as I haven't really needed to go anywhere. My most exciting news is that I published a story. It's a very short story of just 7 pages. I published it through Lulu.com simply because it seems to be the only free self-publishing platform that will print books under 24 pages! My story is, however, also available on Kindle as an eBook. I can't advertise on here, of course, but I wanted to share the excitement. It's particularly exciting as it was a story I thought was lost. I'd written it 4 years ago as a piece for my degree. I think I shared it on Bubblews (which, of course, is now dead) and, if I saved it anywhere else, it would have been saved on a dead computer! Anyway, I found the story in my emails - I had sent it to a friend and had completely forgotten that I'd done so. Once I'd edited it for clarity, I published it. It's my second published paperback (the first was a poetry book but I don't advertise that because it wasn't my best poetry! It was more as an experiment to see how it went. That was so long ago that I don't think I'd even heard of Kindle at the time! I've not been very busy with my office job today but I did get a bit of writing done on my personal 'big' project. I've just been wasting some time before my lunch break. It's now lunch time so I will bid you farewell for now. Anything going on in your lives? How are my fellow writers doing with your own exploits?