I just sold a story. A really good story, though I can't say much about it at the moment.

I was kind of concerned about what I could do with it in the time and space available, but right now I am on fire. It's going to be spectacular. In terms of me achieving what I wanted from it, of course. Whether readers see it similarly, is another story. Whether editors will even see it that way and not destroy it is yet another. And whether I am just delusional in the midst of a mad writing binge as I often find myself is another still another possibility.

But at least it looks like nothing but rose pedals right now. When it feels awful I know it's awful. And when I'm struggling with every line it's usually problematic and at the very least a dreadful struggle. It was a dreadful struggle last night before I got a little direction, now it is just spilling out of me like . . . (fill in your own metaphor this time--I'm way too consumed chanelling my juices into the piece to use up any here.) (Update cdmarine--a wonderful woman I met in person in Des Moines working on the Dean campaign just before the shattering caucuses--suggests rose petals. Nice. But feel free to fill in your own.)

Just wanted to spread the good cheer. Check in early next week for fresh news. Hopefully I can start spilling the beans around then.

I was thinking it might be time to remove my link to Howard Dean's blog, Dean for America, now named Democracy for America, but his own private lobbying/PAC organization.

So I went there for a peek, and #1, the old url still works. And number two, the bloggers are still running wild. Still posting half a dozen entries a day, still getting several hundred comments per entry. Early this morning, they started an open thread, and by 7 a.m. it was so filled they started a second one devoted to health specifically to healthcare.

I'm not sure who these people are, or what they hope to accomplish, but through the blog and other venues I have access to, there is still a hardcore tribe of true believers going at it. At something.

Interesting.