I’ve just been informed that my short short story “Shooting Free Throws” has been selected to appear in the fall issue of Soundings Literary Journal.

Obviously I’m pretty excited about this, and it gives me even more hope for the two or three submissions I have out in the world right now, as well as the one going out next week.  They’re taking it without any changes, though I’ll get to look at the proof and make sure everything came out right (error-checking, not revision).

I want to sit and write something right now, but I’m on an enforced time out for another week or two.  It seems I have managed to get tendinitis in my left hand.  Strangely enough, it’s probably not from writing — suspects are Capoeira and bad reading form* ahead of typing,  though it may have been a combination of all three — but I still don’t want to overstress it.  I’m limiting myself to a few minutes of freewriting a day, plus short e-mails and whatever work requires.  Speaking of which, I should probably call the entry to a close here.

*Note to returning students, be careful how you hold your books when studying.  This may sound obvious, but when you’re mentally involved in what you’re reading, you might not always notice little warnings from the body until they become big warnings.  Especially to be avoided is holding a large book in one hand for more than an hour a day for many days in a row.  Oh, and for these purposes, anything larger than a medium-width mass market paperback should be considered large, even thick paperbacks and trade paperbacks.

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