Nice surprise this morning: apparently Rhode Island Public Radio has rebroadcast my 2014 essay "The Truth of Revision" on their This I Believe New England program.  I've already had two e-mails praising it.  🙂

http://www.ripr.org/post/i-believe-new-england-revision

Here (a little late) are my monthly statistics for August:

• 7,800 new words of fiction written this month. 1
   
• 24 first drafts currently in progress. 2
   
• 9 first draft currently "ripening" before second draft. 3
   
• 4 second drafts currently in progress
   
• 1 second draft currently in the hands of "trusted readers."
   

I'm pleased to report that The Drabblecast just bought my flash story, "Six Drabbles of Separation."

Drabblecast is a seriously cool venue, and what's even cooler is that the story is the result of an intensive collaborative process between editor Norm Sherman and me. I had sent several 100-word drabbles to Norm separately, and it was his idea to ( Read more... )

Here are my monthly statistics for February:

• 5,500 new words of fiction written this month. 1
   
• 22 first drafts currently in progress. 2
   
• 1 first draft currently "ripening" before second draft. 3
   
• 5 second drafts currently in progress
   
• 0 second drafts currently in the hands of "trusted readers."
   

First, the good stuff:

Small Beer Press will soon release A Life In Paper, a collection of short stories by the French fabulist Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, translated by Edward Gauvin. Edward was my classmate at Clarion, and is a gifted literary SFF writer as well as a skilled translator. Putting Châteaureynaud into English has been his pet ( Read more... )

I have my monthly writing/submission stats for both December and all of 2009.

First, December:

• 8,400 new words of fiction written this month. 1
   
• 21 first drafts currently in progress. 2
   
• 5 first drafts currently "ripening" before second draft. 3
   
• 3 second drafts currently in progress
   
• 0 second drafts currently in the hands of "trusted readers."
   

Monthly stats for October:

• 10,182 new words of fiction written this month. 1
   
• 20 first drafts currently in progress (some untouched for a long time)
   
• 3 first drafts currently "ripening" before second draft. 2
   
• 4 second drafts currently in progress
   
• 2 second drafts currently in the hands of "trusted readers."
   

Here are my monthly stats for March:

• 6,500 new words of fiction written this month. 1
   
• 15 first drafts currently in progress. 2
   
• 1 first draft currently "ripening" before second draft. 3
   
• 1 second draft currently in progress
   
• 0 second draft currently in the hands of "trusted readers."
   

Here are my monthly stats for February:

• 6,300 new words of fiction written this month. 1
   
• 14 first drafts currently in progress. 2
   
• 1 first draft currently "ripening" before second draft. 3
   
• 0 second drafts currently in progress
   
• 1 second draft currently in the hands of "trusted readers."