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Housemate and I went for a walk the other day around the university campus, which really is a lovely place with lots of trees and green spaces. As we were heading back to the car, one of the campus squirrels approached us, looking for a handout. Sadly, we didn't have anything to give him. (Imploring little squirrel face!) But I held still, and he came up and sniffed my shoes to make sure. And when I got the housemate to also hold still, he went over and checked out her shoes, then sat up and put his paw on her leg to steady himself while he sniffed her jeans! Then he moved over to her other foot and did the same there! For a minute I thought he was going to climb right up her, and she'd end up with a squirrel hat; but no, he finally decided we were in fact bereft of squirrel fodder, and moved off a few feet. Though he did keep looking wistfully after us until another squirrel distracted him.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
June & July Word Counts
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020 11:08 pmJune:
original short fiction = 3871
July:
original short fiction = 4172
That includes the rest of DDJJ2 ("Dix Dayton and the Miner from Mars"), "Dear Ones" (which is now going as "A Fine Warm Tale On A Winter's Night"), and "Hands On", as well as bits and pieces of other things. Technically June includes 296 words of Street Magic, which is a novel, but it's not developed enough yet to get its own wordcount file.
In addition, 601 words in July on the "beach house" follow-up to HoM. I don't normally include it in monthly totals (because it's a sprawly character self-indulgence, likely never to be publishable), but in this case it's worth noting because I finally figured out what I needed to get a key sequence moving (hint: Dad games).
Short story submissions:
June: 6
July: 2
Two of which were acceptances!
Queries sent (July): 2
The numbers are actually pretty decent! (Okay, more querying, but otherwise.) The numbers don't quite tell the whole story, though; there's a lot of not-writing in there, for all I've been kicking it with the short stories lately. For example, all of July's writing happened from the 6th to the 15th, and not a word since.
I've been writing to deadline and/or to spec so much lately (anthology calls, ficathons, etc.) that I don't quite know what to do with myself when there isn't a specific (and close) target in sight. I need to get back to a semi-steady writing habit, with at least some focus on longer things. So for August, I'm going to try booting up Green Ring again; as a little for-fun fantasy thing (albeit with asperations to be a novella), it should be a good bridge.
Also, more querying.
original short fiction = 3871
July:
original short fiction = 4172
That includes the rest of DDJJ2 ("Dix Dayton and the Miner from Mars"), "Dear Ones" (which is now going as "A Fine Warm Tale On A Winter's Night"), and "Hands On", as well as bits and pieces of other things. Technically June includes 296 words of Street Magic, which is a novel, but it's not developed enough yet to get its own wordcount file.
In addition, 601 words in July on the "beach house" follow-up to HoM. I don't normally include it in monthly totals (because it's a sprawly character self-indulgence, likely never to be publishable), but in this case it's worth noting because I finally figured out what I needed to get a key sequence moving (hint: Dad games).
Short story submissions:
June: 6
July: 2
Two of which were acceptances!
Queries sent (July): 2
The numbers are actually pretty decent! (Okay, more querying, but otherwise.) The numbers don't quite tell the whole story, though; there's a lot of not-writing in there, for all I've been kicking it with the short stories lately. For example, all of July's writing happened from the 6th to the 15th, and not a word since.
I've been writing to deadline and/or to spec so much lately (anthology calls, ficathons, etc.) that I don't quite know what to do with myself when there isn't a specific (and close) target in sight. I need to get back to a semi-steady writing habit, with at least some focus on longer things. So for August, I'm going to try booting up Green Ring again; as a little for-fun fantasy thing (albeit with asperations to be a novella), it should be a good bridge.
Also, more querying.
