"Discord", "Mahalia" and NaNoWriMo

My short story, "Discord", has been submitted to Glimmer Train. They won't be deciding yea or nay until January, so there's no sense in holding my breath and letting everything else slide. Until they make their decision, all I can say about the story is that it involves a musician (variously inspired by Joel R.L. Phelps, Jeff Buckley, Lou Barlow and the late Brad Nowell of the band Sublime) and a record company executive who lets his career aspirations compromise any sort of decent human behavior. I'm pretty pleased with it, and I hope they are as well.

Turning to new projects, I've started working on expanding this vignette into more of a story. I only have a vague idea where I'll be taking this one. But that's the fun thing about writing--just put pen to paper and see what happens. Hopefully the muses will be smiling upon me.

NaNoWriMo is coming up again in November, and I plan on resuming the novel I started there last year. The working title is "Eden," but only for conciseness; that concept is a bit hackneyed, and I plan to come up with something better. But it's presumptuous of me to agonize over a title at this point, given how many years of work are still in store should I ever happen to finish this epic. A title without a novel is of little use.