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Growing as a Short Story Writer

| May 20, 2019

I started writing regularly in 2009 and lucked out by selling my first short story early in 2010. After that, things were a bit more hit and miss for a while. Between 2010 and 2014, I made a total of 11 story sales, some of them for no payment, and mostly for very small payments. […]

Submissions Tetris Part 2: Planning

| April 22, 2019

Last week, I talked about using submissions trackers to keep track of the various submissions I have out at any given time. Today, I’m talking about planning for submissions. When I’ve got a new piece to put into circulation, I generally have a loosely planned out list of markets I want to submit it to. […]

Submissions Tetris Part 1

| April 15, 2019

If you follow my monthly recap posts, you may have noticed that I frequently have a lot of stories in circulation at any given time. Currently, that number is close to 60, though it varies slightly from day to day. As someone who writes a lot of poetry, flash, and short stories, and who wants […]

January recap

| February 1, 2013

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 4 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 7 Resubmissions: 6 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 4 So yeah, January was a busy busy month! I had a lot of stories that were still out at the end of December […]

November recap

| December 1, 2012

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 4 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 3 Resubmissions: 0 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 1 Right, so that posting during NaNo didn’t happen. And there’s a story about NaNo this year, too, but that’ll be in a minute. […]

May recap

| May 31, 2012

By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 5 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 2(*) Resubmissions: 3(*) New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 5 In addition to the above, my novella went out to beta readers! I now am trying not to check my E-mail obsessively, because […]

April recap

| April 30, 2012

By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 5 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 2 (*) Resubmissions: 2 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 5 The asterisk on rejections is because I technically received one rejection. The other “rejection” was in the form of an anthology I […]

February recap

| February 29, 2012

By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 6 Acceptances received: 1 (“The Devil’s Toybox”) Rejections received: 2 Resubmissions: 0 New Submissions: 1 (“The Devil’s Toybox”) Stories out at the end of the month: 4 So what did I get done this month that isn’t reflected above? I only wrote one book […]

January recap

| January 31, 2012

By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 5 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 1 Resubmissions: 1 New Submissions: 1 (“The Cask of Cranglimmering”) Stories out at the end of the month: 6 So what did I get done this month that isn’t reflected above? Well, I wrote two book reviews, figured […]