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!
Short Stories
# Completed: 1 (“The Last Crossing”)
# In-progress: 2 (“The Pit”, and “The First Crosswalker”)
# Submissions: 1 (“The Last Crossing” to the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge)
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions: 1 (“Gray”, submitted to the Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition… and it’s past the query date, so I should get on that!)
Poems
# Completed: 1 (“The Night Before”)
# Submissions: 0
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions: 1 (to Hunger Mountain from Sept. – still nothing, guess I should really query… :P)
Novel
Words Written: 2600
Outline(s) Written: Plotted Character Emotional Development Arcs, Dramatic Action arcs, and Thematic Significance arcs for Vince and Pavel through entire novel. Ordered the free first edition hardcover proof from lulu.com, WOOT! ^_^
Editing
# Own Projects edited: 1 (“The Last Crossing”)
# Others’ Projects edited: 3 for two people
Education
# Workshops Attended: 0
# Tutorials Watched: 0
# Books Read: 4 in-progress (“S” by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst; A Storm of Swords – book 3 of the Song of Ice and Fire series – by George R. R. Martin; Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell; The Art of War for Writers by James Scott Bell)
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