Running just a little behind this month! Blame a looming fiction contest deadline! O_o But we’ll get to that in a minute. First, let me see if I can get all this sorted out!
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: 1 (“The Transference” to the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing competition!)
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions from March: 1 (from Witness – starting to get SUPER anxious about this one, it’s nearly time to query!)
Poems
# Completed: 0
# Submissions: 0
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 2 (from Kudzu Review and damselfly Press)
# Pending Submissions from May: 6 (Four Way Review, Torrid Literature, Architrave, Paper Scissors Magazine, Split Rock Review and Bone Bouquet)
Novel
Words Written: 4683 on contest entry novel
Outline Written: Act 1, part of Act 2, and ending of contest entry novel, character sheets for contest entry novel
Editing
# Own Projects edited: 1 (Prologue and Chapter 1 of “Cheetah on the Roof”)
# Others’ Projects edited: 8 (Wow!) for three different people
Education
# Workshops Attended: 1 (New Letters Weekend Writing Conference at UMKC)
# Tutorials Watched: 0
# Books Read: 3 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)
Total Words Written in May, Collective: 8710
(That count does not include all blog posts for the month of June :P)
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