Another story submitted!
Sep. 16th, 2009 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuI just emailed "Ink" to The Way of the Wizard, a 2010 anthology about--you guessed it!--wizards. It's the first of two stories I intend to write this week, as part of my goal of writing and submitting two stories a week (or one novelette or novella, if that's what it turns out to be) for the next few months.
I wrote this story over the course of a few hours yesterday and today, including some modest revisions this morning once I figured out where the story was supposed to go. Nonetheless, I count that as a single draft since I cycled through and updated before I finished the story. Then I spellchecked it, printed it out and gave it my trusted First Reader (aka my lovely and talented wife) to read. She loved it, which is good to hear. She really liked it, which was even better.
So with that in mind, I immediately emailed it to the first of ten markets on a list I researched this afternoon. When/if it gets rejected there, I have nine additional markets to work my way through before I have to go back and find more.
I think that I'm going to stop tracking raw words produced now--at least while I'm writing short stories. When I start writing novels, I'll probably go back to tracking words written daily--but even then only on individual projects. The running total since May has done its job, convincing me that I can produce words on demand. Now it's time to focus on producing finished projects.
Words Written Today: Irrelevant
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 131,457
Stories in Circulation: ELEVEN! <---yes, another one!
Rejections: 9
Stories Accepted: ONE!
I wrote this story over the course of a few hours yesterday and today, including some modest revisions this morning once I figured out where the story was supposed to go. Nonetheless, I count that as a single draft since I cycled through and updated before I finished the story. Then I spellchecked it, printed it out and gave it my trusted First Reader (aka my lovely and talented wife) to read. She loved it, which is good to hear. She really liked it, which was even better.
So with that in mind, I immediately emailed it to the first of ten markets on a list I researched this afternoon. When/if it gets rejected there, I have nine additional markets to work my way through before I have to go back and find more.
I think that I'm going to stop tracking raw words produced now--at least while I'm writing short stories. When I start writing novels, I'll probably go back to tracking words written daily--but even then only on individual projects. The running total since May has done its job, convincing me that I can produce words on demand. Now it's time to focus on producing finished projects.
Words Written Today: Irrelevant
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 131,457
Stories in Circulation: ELEVEN! <---yes, another one!
Rejections: 9
Stories Accepted: ONE!
