Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for April 2013

Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ’em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as completed projects, in-progress projects, and future projects!

PS: I did not forget about Writing Prompt Wednesday, I was just in a panic about how in the heck I could manage to get to the RT Booklovers Convention I had just found out was being held in my city! 😉 I have plenty of posts coming up in the next week or so to make up for last week’s missed one… I did, in fact, manage to get to the convention, and it was AMAZING! But more on that later! For now….

Bait, Fish and Reel Report for April 2013:

Short Stories

# Completed: 1 (“Colorless”)
# In-progress: 0
# Submissions: 0
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions from March: 1 (from Witness)

Poems

# Completed: 0
# Revised: 3
# Submissions: 1 (to Yeah Write! Review)
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions from March: 1 (from Kudzu Review)

Novel

Words Written: 5750
Outline Written: None

Editing

# Own Projects edited: 3 poems
# Others’ Projects edited: 4 chapters total for two people

Education

# Workshops Attended: 0
# Tutorials Watched: 2 (“Make Your Characters Come Alive” by James Scott Bell and “Avoid the Perils of Self-Publishing” by April L. Hamilton)
# Books Read: 4 in-progress (The Art of War for Writers and Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell, No More Rejections by Alice Orr; A Storm of Swords – book 3 of the Song of Ice and Fire series – by George R. R. Martin)