Holy moley May was a craaaaazzzyyy month! I’m not even sure I can untangle all these numbers, but I’ll try my best! ….
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: 2 (“A Lovely Day for a Parade” – Story in a Bag Contest Entry and WINNER of sci-fi amateur catagory, and “The Transference”, formerly “Blackmarket Body”)
# In-progress: 0
# Submissions: 0 (technically the WD Competition submission is June…)
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions from March: 1 (from Witness)
Poems
# Completed: 5
# Submissions: 7 (same 3 poems to 7 different markets)
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 1 (from Yeah Write! Review)
# Pending Submissions from March: 1 (from Kudzu Review)
Novel
Words Written: 1630
Outline Written: None
Editing
# Own Projects edited: 3 poems, 1 short story (“The Transference”)
# Others’ Projects edited: 0
Education
# Workshops Attended: Three panels at ConQuesT 44 in KC, MO and the Story in a Bag contest.
# Tutorials Watched: 0
# 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); also couldn’t help starting The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss because I met him at the con and he was just awesome so now I must read his book! *headdesk*
Total Words Written in May, Collective: 8663
(I’m going to count blog posts related to writing here – but not Project Lists or BFR Reports – because those are often related to things I’m learning as I go, which further my career as a writer and help improve my craft. So, it counts!)
In addition, I completed my entire Project List for May, WHOOHOO! 😉
You’re so busy! I’m glad your short story won. 🙂 If you can, please do link to the story when it’s available. It sounds fascinating. 🙂
Hey there! Yep it’s been pretty crazy lately! Someday I will have to catch up on my sleep! 😛 I will definitely be posting that Story in a Bag shortly, it’s too funny not to share. I wanted to wait until I received my winning certificate to post it, but I may not be able to hold back much longer, heheh. I’d say it’ll be up on the blog by this weekend though! I can’t wait to see what other people think of it, too. It was fun to write, but super intense, also. I didn’t even remember the last few paragraphs, literally!
I love when that happens–writing so much and so quickly that you can’t remember what you wrote. Rereading becomes rediscovering. 😀
Soooo true! That happened to me alot during NaNo 2012 too! Lol. It was like reading something written by someone else afterward, as I had no memory whatsoever of writing some of the scenes! Also I have noticed when I am really writing fast, I’m not even thinking about what I’m writing, which is really bizarre to me. My fingers are moving, and I’m typing coherent words, but my brain is totally unaware of what’s being put on the page. That’s only happened a few times, but that’s when I don’t remember what I wrote, and that definitely happened during Story in a Bag! I was actually afraid it would come out making no sense whatsoever! But when I reread, it actually worked, AND I only found TWO mistakes! Pretty damn good if I say so myself, LOL!!!