September 2022 Recap
By the numbers:
Stories out at the beginning of the month: 128
Acceptances received: 5
Rejections received: 71 (11)
Stories withdrawn: 0
Resubmissions: 39
New Submissions: 23
Stories out at the end of the month: 105
I was a little slower than normal on the submissions front this month, but I did get a TON of new pieces out into the world. The majority of that was finishing up WLYA pieces (mainly poems) and submitting them. The 11 in parenthesis for rejections is stories at markets that never responded, some of them up to a year after my submissions. All poems, which sadly happens a lot.
The five acceptances in September were two flash fiction stories (one a reprint), two drabbles, and a poem.
In addition to the submissions and those WLYA revisions, I completed the research for my July novella, revised living room, started revising Sasha, wrote runway, worked some on contest revisions, wrote a microfiction, reviewed three books (two in one post), worked through the next section of Stephen Fry’s poetry book, launched Camp Haunt, and sent out my newsletter. I also wrote a couple of drabbles and some other work related to an online horror writing course that I took in September (and into the beginning of October).
In October, I plan to:
- Finish revising Sasha.
- Revise runway.
- Write a Halloween contest story.
- Start writing another story (moors).
- Write or start 31 pieces for Drawlloween.
- Write a microfiction and a flash for contests (which may come out of the Drawlloween pieces).
- Review a book.
- Work through the next section of Stephen Fry’s poetry book.
- Newsletter.
Not too bad. But on top of this, we’re starting an online Japanese course (in the hopes that we’re visiting Japan in 2023!), which will knock out a chunk of my writing time each week into early December. But I’m getting more done on the weekends with my writing, so losing a little bit of a weeknight won’t be too awful.
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