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!
I did not track September very well, so hopefully this will come out okay… yipes…. O_o
Short Stories
# Completed: 1 (“A Lovely Day to Make a Deal with a Werewolf King” – the result of a Story in a Bag type challenge prompt presented by a member of my writing group. This will be lengthened, edited, and submitted… eventually…)
# In-progress: 2 (“The Pit”, and “The First Crosswalker”, though Crosswalker now has priority)
# Submissions: 0
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions from March: 1 (from Witness… now at least IN-PROGRESS!)
Poems
# Completed: 1 (“Nightmare or Opportunity”)
# Submissions: 1 (to Hunger Mountain)
# Acceptances: 0
# Rejections: 0
# Pending Submissions from May: 2 (Torrid Literature – now IN PROGRESS, and Bone Bouquet – queried this month)
Novel
Words Written: 8,675 on “The Good Thing” (most of which is being scrapped, meh…)
Outline(s) Written: Chapters 10 through 12 of “The Good Thing”
Editing
# Own Projects edited: 1 (short story “The Transference”)
# Others’ Projects edited: 5 for four different people
Education
# Workshops Attended: 2 nightly workshops with Deb Sturgess
# Tutorials Watched: 0
# Books Read: 4 STILL 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)
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