30 Submissions. 27 Days. 25 Markets. 17 Stories. 14 Rejections. These are the numbers for my September Submission challenge this year. As in previous years, the goal was to submit 30 times in 30 days. Last year I submitted 31 times over 29 days, but I'm not competing with my past self, so I'm not... Continue Reading →
August 2021 Postmortem and September Goals
It's once again that time of the month where I gush over the goals I managed to meet and make excuses for the ones I didn't. Maybe that's a bit hard on me. I don't know. Let's not over analyze and get into it. So, How'd I Do? I've been trying to focus on the... Continue Reading →
July 2021 Postmortem and August 2021 Goals
It's already August 2021? How? How did July pass so quickly when it was excruciating? Filled with apathy, self-doubt, malaise. I'll chalk it up to pandemic fatigue, wallowing in the heartache of knowing that it's probably going to be at least another year before I can see my family in person again. And the frustration... Continue Reading →
July 2021 Goals
Now that I've moved and finished revising and submitting my novella, I'm going to try to get back into the habit of writing these monthly accountability posts. But what exactly is it that I want to accomplish during the month of July? I don't have any big deadlines or major things to prepare for coming... Continue Reading →
Return From the Revision Trenches
Hello. Good to see you. I feel like it's been a while. I've been at the wars, fighting adverbs into submission, hunting down those insidious "thats", "justs", "reallys" and all those other filler words that weasel their ways into first drafts. It's been a time. I was working on revising the novella I wrote for... Continue Reading →
2020 in the Rearview
Seeing as January's on the way out, I suppose it's past time for me to do my end of 2020 blog posts. I haven't really wanted to blog. I reached the end of 2020 and didn't feel like I'd accomplished anything worth sharing even though I know that's not true. Despite everything going on with... Continue Reading →
December 2020 Goals
November was intense and so was September, so I'm going to take it somewhat easy in terms of writing this December. I'd like to revise some of the short stories I wrote during September and get them resubmitted. I have a list of ten stories, maybe eleven if I get to a story that I... Continue Reading →
NaNo 2020 or That Time I Wrote 73,000 words in 30 Days
NaNo by the Numbers That's right, my lovelies, not only did I "win" NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month for them that's new here) for the second year in a row, I gave it a thorough trouncing. The goal was to write 50,000 words in 30 days; I wrote 73,292 words. So, as I said, 73,292... Continue Reading →
October Goals: NaNo Prep and Sewtober
Okay, I know we're already a week into October, but I've still got goals, and I've only just finished scooping my brain off the floor and pouring it back into my skull following my September Story Challenge. Anyway, it's October. Spooky Season. The month preceding November in which writers worldwide descend into the voluntary madness... Continue Reading →
Looking Towards September
I had several many goals, both writing and non-writing related during August. Let's see how I did, shall we? How'd I Do, August? Let's start with the writing goals first: I finished the revision pass on my current WIP and created my spreadsheet outline for the draft so that I can visualize the story structure... Continue Reading →