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!
Oh, so you noticed I’d forgotten this, eh? My apologies! Running a little behind this month! Real life and the day job have been quite hectic lately – whew! But let’s get to it…
Short Stories
# Completed: 0
# In-progress: 2 (“The Pit”, and “The First Crosswalker”, still just sitting there… a new one will begin shortly, however, as I have entered the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge…)
# Submissions: 2 (“In Death, Everything” – formerly “In Morte, Omnia” to Strange Horizons and “The Transference” to Daily Science Fiction.)
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 2 (You betcha, from Strange Horizons and DSF, least they didn’t keep me waiting! I have since sent “The Transference” to Write Story Editing and am working on revising according to their suggestions!)
# Pending Submissions: 0
Poems
# Completed: 2 (“Precious Metal” and “Begin”)
# Submissions: 0
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions: 1 (to Hunger Mountain from Sept. – starting to get pretty darn anxious about this one… it’s about a week past the query date. I’ll give it another week and shoot them an email if I still haven’t heard anything.)
Novel
Words Written: 14,608 on “The Good Thing” (WOW, a lot more than it felt like! Probably because 4,265 ended up being scrapped! :P)
Outline(s) Written: Revised Chapter 19-28 outlines
Editing
# Own Projects edited: 0
# 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)
When you count a swift rejection as a positive, you know you’re a writer!
… hrm, good point! Lol.