A Week of Writing: 7/2/18 to 7/8/18
Happy Monday. Here’s a week of writing wins and woes.
Words to Write By
Another quote from King, and one that’s especially important to me since I tend to write a lot of horror.
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
– Stephen King
It seems simple, but if we just look at horror movies as an example, so many fail at this basic concept. If you don’t care about the people in the story, you won’t care when horrible things happen to them. I love writing about monsters, but I sometimes have to look at them like the dessert course after I finish my character vegetables. I’m not always successful, of course, and a few stray bits of broccoli have, on occasion, been fed to the literary pooch under the table.
The Novel
Got through a couple more chapters last week. More heavy revision as I catch up the manuscript from the changes I made in chapter one. There’ll be more of that this week, as chapters five through ten need revision to conform to a slightly altered plot. But I feel good about what’s happening, and the book is taking shape.
Short Stories
Finished one new story this week called “She Has a Way with Things That Grow.” Yeah, that’s a long, clunky title, I know, and it’ll likely shorten up to something a bit less wordy. It started as flash, but I think it’ll end up somewhere around 3,000 words.
A good week for submissions in some regards and terrible for others.
- Submissions Sent: 0
- Rejections: 1
- Acceptances: 2
- Publications: 1
For the first time in a long time, I didn’t send a single submission last week. I’m not too broken up about it, though, since I’m still on track for my goal of 100 submissions for the year. Plus, I got two acceptances and a publication last week, so that’s pretty awesome. More submissions will go out this week.
The Blog
Two blog posts last week, both of the “here’s what I’ve been up to” variety. Last week was a good week for new followers, though. So if you recently started following the blog, thank you!
7/3/18: A Week of Writing: 6/25/10 to 7/1/18
The usual weekly writing update.
7/6/18: Submission Statement: June 2018
My submission endeavors for the month of June.
Goals
As usual, keep working on the first read-through/revision of the novel, and get more short stories revised or finished and out the door.
Story Spotlight
This week’s story spotlight marks a dirty dozen publications with The Molotov Cocktail. They recently published my story “Two Legs,” which you can read for free by clicking the link below.
“Two Legs”
Bonus Kitten Round
Yeah, I know it’s not exactly writing related, but we adopted this little fuzzball last week. His name is Fidget, and I look forward to many years of shooing him off my keyboard as I attempt to write stores, novels, and blog posts.
That was my week. How was yours?
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Congratulations on the publication.
Thank you. 🙂