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Re-submitted for your approval....
Friday, September 6th, 2013 10:26 am*glp!*
Friday, September 6th, 2013
*glp!*
August Word Count / Goals
Friday, September 6th, 2013 11:12 amTargets were: 3000 words.
original short fiction: 6836
old mission stories: 360 (plus some random stuff I'm not counting)
Haley novel: 111
Total new words in August: 7307
Ha! More than double the goal, and more than even my usual non-slack-cutting wordcount goal. Go, me!
3 queries.
Queries sent: 1
Oh, well. I was geared up to charge through all three on the 30th (yeah, all at the last minute, I know), but the second agent I tried is UK-based, which means different standards, also less social-media presence, and I kept finding contradictory reports on their business practices... and eventually I got so flummoxed that I couldn't tell if I wanted to cross them off just to be done with it, or query them just to be done with it. Which is a clear sign it's time to stop if ever there was one.
Finish the story for the ISFiC Writers Contest.
Done! And sent! (And now comes the waiting part.... Have I mentioned I'm bad at waiting?)
Figure out if the other story I've been shopping around is ready to go back out, and if it is, send it.
I figured it out. And then I waffled. And then I decided again. And... you get the idea. But I did finally commit to a version and chuck it back out into the ether -- a few days after the end of the month, granted, but I'm calling it close enough. It's done now, anyway.
And then get back to that novel I'm supposed to be writing.
Note that 111 words up there? Yeah! Not a lot in actual word-count, but it's carrying on from the point at which that novel's been stalled for absolute ages; I was beginning to be worried that that scene was terminally stuck. So any progress is good! And I can feel the right mind-set for the novel settling back in. Need to get cracking on actual words, yes, but I'm feeling good about the prospects. So, done.
That's two incontrovertibly done, one done, one done with rounding in my favor, and one at 1/3. Not bad!
I do need to get the querying under control; that one's been slipping under every month. Yes, it's work, and profoundly unrewarding. But eventually it will pay off -- but only if it gets done.
September's goals: 4000 words (gearing back up), a hefty chunk of which had better be on the Haley novel. 4 queries. And that's it; other opportunities as they come my way, of course, but it's time to focus back on core requirements.
original short fiction: 6836
old mission stories: 360 (plus some random stuff I'm not counting)
Haley novel: 111
Total new words in August: 7307
Ha! More than double the goal, and more than even my usual non-slack-cutting wordcount goal. Go, me!
3 queries.
Queries sent: 1
Oh, well. I was geared up to charge through all three on the 30th (yeah, all at the last minute, I know), but the second agent I tried is UK-based, which means different standards, also less social-media presence, and I kept finding contradictory reports on their business practices... and eventually I got so flummoxed that I couldn't tell if I wanted to cross them off just to be done with it, or query them just to be done with it. Which is a clear sign it's time to stop if ever there was one.
Finish the story for the ISFiC Writers Contest.
Done! And sent! (And now comes the waiting part.... Have I mentioned I'm bad at waiting?)
Figure out if the other story I've been shopping around is ready to go back out, and if it is, send it.
I figured it out. And then I waffled. And then I decided again. And... you get the idea. But I did finally commit to a version and chuck it back out into the ether -- a few days after the end of the month, granted, but I'm calling it close enough. It's done now, anyway.
And then get back to that novel I'm supposed to be writing.
Note that 111 words up there? Yeah! Not a lot in actual word-count, but it's carrying on from the point at which that novel's been stalled for absolute ages; I was beginning to be worried that that scene was terminally stuck. So any progress is good! And I can feel the right mind-set for the novel settling back in. Need to get cracking on actual words, yes, but I'm feeling good about the prospects. So, done.
That's two incontrovertibly done, one done, one done with rounding in my favor, and one at 1/3. Not bad!
I do need to get the querying under control; that one's been slipping under every month. Yes, it's work, and profoundly unrewarding. But eventually it will pay off -- but only if it gets done.
September's goals: 4000 words (gearing back up), a hefty chunk of which had better be on the Haley novel. 4 queries. And that's it; other opportunities as they come my way, of course, but it's time to focus back on core requirements.
