It was a good day

I still need to get "Man-Ape" back into circulation, but otherwise it was a good day. I got my royalty check from Cobblestone Press for February. Not a lot of money, but it's money I earned from my fiction, so that's good.

I wrote 5,025 words today on my still as yet unnamed SF novel about a guy who repossesses starships. That's a very good word count, and I am very pleased with it. I was in the groove today. I didn't worry about whether it was good, I just wrote. I wrote two or three scenes. That's my focus currently--trying to follow the advice on the index card pinned over my monitor: Trust The Process. Write In Scenes! Today I managed to do just that. But aside from the basic scene question, I let my subconscious take the story where it would, writing whatever seemed interesting to me at the time. (Another rule I try to follow: if what I'm writing isn't "the good parts", if it's a scene I'm doing in order to get to a "good parts" scene...dump it! Even the set-up should be fun to read and fun to write.)

That was a good, productive mindset and one I am going to try hard to replicate as often as possible. I know I'll have days when my inner critic gets the better of me, but today was NOT one of those days.

Today's writing involved our hero trying to access the ship du jour, only to be driven off by armed guards. He went to the local authorities for help. Denied! So he and his minion sneaked back to the port under cover of darkness and stole the ship out from under the guards' noses. Then I went back and wrote an opening scene to explain how Our Hero got into the repo business; that's not done yet, but it's under way.


Stories in Circulation: 10
Rejections: 34
Stories Accepted: SEVEN
Stories to Resubmit: 1

Novel Queries: 1 Novel, 5 queries out
Novel Rejections: 4

Project 1: Space Opera (Title TBD)
Words Written: 8,348




Project 2: Urban Fantasy (Title TBD)
Words Written: 0