October Word Count

Falling From Ground = 3086
original short fiction = 1044

Total new words in October = 4130

Not bad, though not the 5000 I really should be hitting by now.

The short is mostly one new story, which is... not my usual sort of thing, though it may be the sort of thing that's usual with editors these days. We'll see.

Unfortunately, I wrote most of the story in one sitting, then ran aground for most of a week. When I had the urge and inspiration to finish it the next day, I didn't have time to sit down and do it (should have blown off the exercising and written), and when I had time, I no longer had the inspiration. So the last 20% or so got slogged, and it took me a week to do it, and I didn't do anything else in the meantime because my head was hung up on that story.

Which is a rambling way of saying that once again, my wordcounts for the part of the month when I was writing regularly were fine, and the shortfall for the month as a whole is entirely due to the part when I didn't write. Funny how that works.

(I had hoped to do a big push yesterday, and get if not to target at least closer, but I had to clear some disk space and instead ended up bogged down in organizational matters all afternoon. Which needed to be dealt with, but argh.)


Queries sent: 3

Again, productivity when I sat down and did it was great; there just wasn't enough sitting down and doing.


No stories submitted. I did look up the status of the one magazine that I still have something out at; they haven't updated their website or Twitter since May. One is not encouraged.


November's goals:

5000 words. There, I've said it.

Go through all the agents I still have bookmarked, and query or cross off. That'll just leave the AAR database left to do.

Sub at least the new story.

Ambitious? Perhaps. But taking it easy on myself has perhaps reached the limits of its usefulness; it's time to dig in and get some stuff done.


ETA: And 8 words on Green Ring, which I forgot about. Brings the total to 4138, FWIW.