Two rejections before noon

I received two story rejections before noon today, and in some ways, they were oddly juxtaposed.  The first one was from a professional market to which I have never submitted before.  The rejection told me that the story made it past the first cut and went on to detail many of the good points of [...]

Writing update

With the first two months of 2010 in the record books, here is a brief update of my progress so far this year:   Jan Feb YTD Days worked  11  9  21 Words written  12,212  8,479  20,691 Stories completed  1  1  2 Stories submitted  2  1  3 Despite writing only 10 days in February, they [...]

Recent writing

For the last three days, I have been getting up early and writing, much like I did back in November for NaNoWriMo.  It has been working well for me.  I have averaged about 1,800 words each day, I spend a total of about 2 hours at the keyboard, and then I’m done for the day.  For me, this [...]

Writers woes

I haven’t written at all this week.  It’s not because I lack the ideas.  I think there are 3 reasons for it: I am mentally reworking the story that I was writing.  This comes from some of the workshopping I did two summers ago.  I could see problems with the story as it was going, [...]

Book signing

Yesterday, I wandered over to a friend’s house–we’ll call him "Todd"–to borrow shovel.  While there, he told me he’d received his copy of DESCENDED FROM DARKNESS, the anthology of short fiction containing my story, "Hindsight, In Neon".  He asked me to sign it.  I think it was a fair trade, considering he was loaning me his shovel.  (I managed [...]

Weekly writing progress report for 2010, week #4

Here’s the status of the progress I’ve made toward my writing goals for 2010 for week #3:   Week YTD Total words written 3,159 12,212 # stories completed 0 1 # stories submitted 0 2 # stories sold 0 0 Summary:  Not as good as I hoped this week.  Busy with work and family stuff, but I [...]

Weekly writing progress report for 2010, week #3

Here’s the status of the progress I’ve made toward my writing goals for 2010 for week #3:   Week YTD Total words written 4,202 9,053 # stories completed 1 1 # stories submitted 2 2 # stories sold 0 0 Summary: Well, the best week so far, out of the first three weeks of the year.  I [...]

Weekly writing progress report for 2010, week #2

Here’s the status of the progress I’ve made toward my writing goals for 2010 for week #1:   Week YTD Total words written 1,652 4,851 # stories completed 0 0 # stories submitted 0 0 # stories sold 0 0 Summary: Ugh.  Another terrible week for writing.  Part of it has been distraction.  But for [...]

Weekly writing progress report for 2010 week #1

Here’s the status of the progress I’ve made toward my writing goals for 2010 for week #1:   Week YTD Total words written 3,199 3,199 # stories completed 0 0 # stories submitted 0 0 # stories sold 0 0 Summary: Not a very auspicious beginning to what is an aggressive set of goals for [...]

Writing goals for 2010

So far, my writing career has seen me sell and publish 2 stories to professional markets, with one of those stories also appearing in an anthology.  When I started writing seriously, way back in January of 1993, publishing even one story was a dream that thrilled me in ways that are difficult to describe.  It took [...]

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