Word Counts, February - April
February:
original short fiction = 3 (just a title, really)
Green Ring = 2942
Falling From Ground = 4457
Total new words in February = 7402
March:
Falling From Ground = 79
April:
Falling From Ground = 2620
Okay, so March was a fustercluck of a month. I knew that. April was supposed to be the month I went back to the A-Z mystery short story that's been languishing, but instead it got bogged down in this expletive-deleted novel, which I swear I just need to finish one conversation to get to the end of the chapter (actually a 4-chapter-length conglomeration, but this would definitely be the end of *a* chapter), and I just cannot get it to go. If I'm more than 500 words from the break I'd be surprised, but no, the alpha reader's getting another stops-in-mid-scene chunk. Argh.
(February kind of rocked, though.)
In other goals, I did get a new email account set up in February, and by mid-March had tested it enough to be satisfied in paying for a year. It's not perfect, but it does the things that are deal-breakers for me, and the things it doesn't do I mostly don't mind working around. Final clean-out of the old email accounts is in progress.
With that done, I haven't gotten back to querying, but I have at least been sending out some short stories:
February: 1 submission sent
March: 3 subs sent
April: 5 subs sent
I currently have four stories out there in slush land. My game plan is to send out two for every one rejection; eventually that should lead to everything being out there, though it gets trickier with the things that have been making the rounds for a while.
For May: Words, dammit. Keep stories out. At least glance at agents lists and query.
This entry was originally posted at http://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/160992.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.
original short fiction = 3 (just a title, really)
Green Ring = 2942
Falling From Ground = 4457
Total new words in February = 7402
March:
Falling From Ground = 79
April:
Falling From Ground = 2620
Okay, so March was a fustercluck of a month. I knew that. April was supposed to be the month I went back to the A-Z mystery short story that's been languishing, but instead it got bogged down in this expletive-deleted novel, which I swear I just need to finish one conversation to get to the end of the chapter (actually a 4-chapter-length conglomeration, but this would definitely be the end of *a* chapter), and I just cannot get it to go. If I'm more than 500 words from the break I'd be surprised, but no, the alpha reader's getting another stops-in-mid-scene chunk. Argh.
(February kind of rocked, though.)
In other goals, I did get a new email account set up in February, and by mid-March had tested it enough to be satisfied in paying for a year. It's not perfect, but it does the things that are deal-breakers for me, and the things it doesn't do I mostly don't mind working around. Final clean-out of the old email accounts is in progress.
With that done, I haven't gotten back to querying, but I have at least been sending out some short stories:
February: 1 submission sent
March: 3 subs sent
April: 5 subs sent
I currently have four stories out there in slush land. My game plan is to send out two for every one rejection; eventually that should lead to everything being out there, though it gets trickier with the things that have been making the rounds for a while.
For May: Words, dammit. Keep stories out. At least glance at agents lists and query.
This entry was originally posted at http://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/160992.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.