Thursday, January 11, 2007

New Year, New Blog

For those of you who've stuck by me through the days of my old blog, many thanks. I know I pulled a fast one by one day, just deleting the remains. But sometimes, you have to destroy everything to rebuild for real. So, here I am with a new blog and a new outlook.

This year has already included tumultuous lows and unbelievable highs. If these past eleven days have been any indicator of the rest of the year, I'm really in for a LOT. My personal life has taken on soap opera form. Suddenly, I'm thrown into a torrid love triangle complete with the slamming of doors and the flinging of expletives. My writing career on the other hand has suddenly come into its own.I won a major annual fiction contest this year. It was announced on the third day of 2007. My story is all over the place. When I think of the readership, it blows my mind that most of the city has access to my work. Plus, I NEVER win anything. Never, never, never. So, I'm starting the year off trying to balance the unbelievably good things with the unbelievably heartbreaking ones.

4 comments:

Crystal said...

Hello April,
I've updated my blogroll and I must say, I think the new title is so very fitting. I read the piece from the Philadelphia Citypaper and it totally blew me away! You really do have so much talent and the writing in that story was top-rate, you totally deserved to win and I hope you will continue to pursue a writing career. What a great start to 2007!

Kelly and Quang's Global Roam said...

Hey April,

Total congrats on winning a fiction prize. Go Girl. I'll have to check out the link.

Kelly

junebee said...

Thanks so much for updating me on your move. That is so outstanding that you won that contest. I, for one, am impressed and I am going to print and read the chapter.

kazumi said...

Congratulations April! I am SO SO SO happy that you're writing again. I've missed your blog.