January 2024 Recap
A gorgeous morning at UW, with Mount Rainier just visible under the clouds
By the numbers:
Stories out at the beginning of the month: 112
Acceptances received: 1
Rejections received: 36 (+4)
Stories withdrawn: 0
Resubmissions: 36
New Submissions: 11 (+1)
Stories out at the end of the month: 116
January turned out to be a great month for getting pieces that were not quite done at the end of 2023 finished. I completed two short stories, four flash fiction pieces, and five poems that went out on submission in January, plus one more short story that I just finished on the 31st, so it didn’t go out until February. I sold one story in January, which is a microfiction piece that I’ll talk more about later!
Otherwise, the submissions roll out and and some rejections roll in. January has actually been oddly slow for that, though I know that my submissions in 2023 were a bit slower than normal, particularly in the latter part of the year.
Also in January, I revised my non-fiction project; finished writing seance; revised parade, bulldozer, and color; revised some poem fragments; wrote a new poem (not for submission); wrote the flash pieces for submissions and the contest; did craft book exercises; reviewed two books; and proofread a DCO book.
In February, I plan to:
- Submit my non-fiction project to a potential publisher (fingers crossed!)
- Revise my superhero novella
- Finish a short story (chapel)
- Finish drafting two short stories (cloak and neglect)
- Revise short story (seance)
- Start a new short story (atoll)
- Write a couple of flash pieces for submissions
- Write two flash pieces for contest
- Start revising the contest flash pieces
- Do four craft book exercises
- Review a book
- Assemble and proofread my next collection
- Edit a DCO book
- Ebook layout a DCO book
That’s not a short list, but it all looks doable!
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