Ready to Bust Out

I have so many exciting potential activities in the writing pipeline. It is making me nuts, because I want so much to get started on all of it, and I am waiting anxiously to see if I get into the NYU low residency MFA program. If I am not admitted, I will spend the year writing and try again for next year, but I really, really hope that I am admitted this year. My fear is that I submitted a writing sample from my old unfinished novel The Bastard, which I have no intention of finishing. It is also a genre novel that I am no longer writing. It is the best current sample I have, however, as my new series is not even fully outlined yet. My older work is well written, but it doesn't have the strong literary appeal that I worry will be memorable and interesting to the professors making admissions decisions.

Additionally, I am going to be starting the 90 Day Novel workshop September 1, and I really hope this will help kick start my first draft of Compendium Book 1. I think this exercise will …