Student/New Writing Struggles and Weekly Writing Goal

I have been writing regularly, but I haven't had time to blog because I have been evaluating my students' short stories.  My students have a lot of talent and unusual humility, but they are still learning how to stick to a schedule and a page limit.  Some of them are having a hard time ending their stories.  That happens, but I hope in their revisions, they are able to resolve the major conflict.  I also recommended that they not put their characters in impossible situations.  I killed a story line that way once; actually, I find teaching a lot from my mistakes when they struggle and hope my advice helps.

The funny thing is that in their stories, I am hyper aware of when they over narrate.  Ha ha ha.  These are parts in my writing that I have to cut out.  Evaluating their stories has been pretty amazing.

Now back to the daily writing: I posted more of "La Bruja del Barrio Loco" which is almost done.  I am shooting for five more pages.  It is a far longer story than I had planned to write and will post it on Amazon as a practice run, after I get sick of revising it.  Actually, that will most likely be my new goal, to post a new one every couple of weeks or more.  The problem isn't the writing; the problem is designing new book covers.  (I love gleaning through ugly book covers and finding ones I like.)  I don't have fantasies of making it rich from what I produce.    

However, I talked to my Union lawyer, who let me know that as long as I teach full time, it doesn't matter how much money I earn from publications.  That is awesome.  I only write a few hours a week, and hope to make some Christmas or emergency money.  

My writing goal this week is to finish "La Bruja" and move onto my novel again.