History That Never Was

I’d be more concerned for his hearing if the red light didn’t mean that the iPod dock is turned off.

By the numbers:
Stories out at the beginning of the month: 71
Acceptances received: 0
Rejections received: 58 (+1) (+5)
Stories withdrawn: 1
Resubmissions: 88
New Submissions: 6
Stories out at the end of the month: 98

My submissions numbers are back up to closer to normal again, after a long while of struggling with those numbers. I’ve still got a lot of stuff that’s NOT in circulation, but I’ve got more of it out right now, so that’s pretty good. No acceptances this month. I withdrew one story, had another story returned from a magazine that was closing, and five pieces where the market never responded. But I finished six new pieces–three short stories and three flash fiction pieces, so that’s not too bad!

I worked on my story codenamed “seance,” but I wound up setting it aside so I could draft all of cyborg instead. Two of the short stories I finished were wolf and Munchausen. I finished all of my flash pieces for the contests, and one of the contest pieces got revised as one of my finished flash pieces in February. I also released The Sidewalk Diverges, created the cover for Droplets from the Universe, reviewed a bunch of stuff (short story and novels and craft book, oh my!), and worked through a section of Stephen Fry’s poetry book. I also dealt with newsletters and a LOT more editing than I was anticipating! I’ve also been trucking along in The Wayward Writer and doing an exercise a week!

In March, I need to:

• Finish five exercises in The Wayward Writer
• Revise cyborg and party
• Finish writing shroud and mothers
• Write five pieces for a poetry contest
• Write poetry for a submissions call
• Write a flash fiction piece for a contest
• Proofread my next collection (third one for the year, currently untitled)
• Work on publicity for Droplets and a couple of DefCon One books
• Work through the next section of Stephen Fry’s poetry book
• Review a short story collection
• Freelance editing work (finishing a proofread, starting a copy edit, and maybe doing a second proofread)

That’s a lot of stuff, but it is all doable!

Tags: february, recap

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