Honestly, this summer keeps trying to wriggle out of my grasp! Well, I’m about to finally catch up with it, I think….
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: 0
# In-progress: 1 (“The Pit” – now on hold until ~fall 2013)
# Submissions: 0
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 1 (from Writer’s Digest for “The Transference”)
# Pending Submissions from March: 1 (from Witness – totally forgot to query while on vacation, but received an email from them on 8.9.13 notifying everyone with a pending submission that they were just running behind. So, still we wait!)
Poems
# Completed: 1 (“Chase the Sun”)
# Submissions: 0
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 3 (from Paper Scissors Magazine, Architrave Press (a personal one!), and Split Rock Review)
# Pending Submissions from May: 3 (Four Way Review, Torrid Literature, and Bone Bouquet)
Novel
Words Written: 21,467 on contest entry novel
Outline(s) Written: Scene outlines as I go recently…
Editing
# Own Projects edited: 2 (Prologue and Chapter One of contest entry novel)
# Others’ Projects edited: 2 for one person
Education
# Workshops Attended: 0
# Tutorials Watched: 0
# Books Read: 5 in-progress (Seduction in Death by Nora Roberts, 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)
Total Words Written in July: 21,467
(That does not include blog posts or poems for the month of July 😛 )
Oh my goodness, I almost forgot about this! I’m looking forward to hearing more about your book, too. I love reading about how far you’ve gotten. 🙂
I know, time really flies, doesn’t it!? I still have yet to do a Project List for August and the month is already nearly half over. O_o YIKES! Well, one thing at a time! And likewise, I love hearing about your progress on your own novels as well. Especially if you are getting close to the end! I even had a dream the other night that I had a finished rough draft. I’d printed the entire thing and it was like a stack of papers 6 inches high, but I was just so thrilled to have a finished draft, from beginning to end, even though I hadn’t yet even edited at all. So funny the way my dreams have changed lately, paahaha! Best of luck to you in your own writing!
That would be a most excellent dream to have, I think. 🙂 A book that’s six inches thick–how incredible! I look forward to hearing about your progress. 🙂