A Week of Writing: 6/4/18 to 6/10/18
Happy Monday. Another week down, another week of positive yardage, more or less.
The Novel
I’m still reading through the first draft of the novel, though I didn’t make much progress last week, mostly because I needed to focus on another project. This week, I’ll continue my read-through and start making some of the first big revisions to the book.
Short Stories
Last week I said I was going to ask my writing group to give a couple of short stories the once over, and I did. I received some really good feedback on two stories I like a lot that just weren’t quite there yet. I know what to do with them now, and hopefully once the revisions are done they’ll find a home.
Another slow week for submissions.
- Submissions Sent: 2
- Rejections: 0
- Acceptances: 0
- Publications: 0
- Withdrawal: 1
This is the first week in a long time where I didn’t receive any rejections. I’m okay with that. I did send out two submissions, number 61 and 62 for the year. One is a brand new story on its first submission and the other is an older story I sent to a new market. I also withdrew a story after no response for many months. I’ll send that one out again this week.
Other Projects
One of the reasons I didn’t spend as much time on the novel is I finished up the D&D adventure I was writing for Goodman Games and turned it in. It had been a while since I did any game design, so it was a lot of fun to put that particular hat on again. I’ll reveal a bit more about this project as it gets closer to publication.
The Blog
Okay, last week was a good one for the ol’ blog, and I managed three posts.
6/4/18: A Week of Writing: 5/28/18 to 6/3/18
The usual weekly writing update.
6/6/18: The Final Round Form Rejection
In this post I discussed a type of higher-tier form rejection I called the final round form rejection. It’s a heart-breaker.
6/8/18: One-Hour Flash – Road to Ruin
Another piece of flash fiction jammed out in an hour. This one ties into a novel concept I’ve had kicking around for years.
Goals
Keep reading and revising the novel is goal number one. I’d also like to revise some of the short stories I mentioned above and get them out for submission.
Story Spotlight
This week’s story spotlight is the second piece I published with The Arcanist. Like many of my published flash fiction stories, this one began life as part of a one-hour flash writing exercise (you can see one of the less successful results of those exercises in last week’s blog posts).
“Reunion”
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Definitely want to hear about the D&D adventure.
Absolutely. I’ll hype it up closer to release. 🙂