I was all set to send off my final journalism course assessment as an on-spec pitch to a few gaming publications (one at a time, pending the outcomes of the pitches of course) but it occurred to me that at 38 weeks pregnant it probably wasn’t the best thing to do.

My plan was to send it off, get it accepted and sorted over the next few weeks and possibly in print by the end of the year or maybe January. However I’ve realised this is a pretty unlikely scenario. Even if the first publication was to accept it, it would take, say, a week to hear back from them. Then they would want some revisions which could potentially take two weeks to arrange/write/edit and by then I will definitely be either in hospital or back at home with a new baby and very little mental capacity.

Or you know, I could go into labour within hours of hitting send.

So despite having the enthusiasm now, it’s just a matter of logistics really. I think I will have to make my first attempt in a few months’ time.

I don’t want to risk screwing up this contact with an editor simply because I couldn’t recognize my time constraints.