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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

October Stat Check

During the month of October, I wrote (or edited) on all 31 days
I spent the entire month editing my novel
I made 0 submissions - FAIL!
I received 1 rejection
I learned that one of my sales wasn't getting published, though since then I've heard a tentative possibility, but it would involve a letter sum of money--no details yet
I have 2 stories currently in slush pile circulation
I made 8 blog posts
I took no days off

Analysis:
Writing/editing was okay, though many days only met a bare minimum of my personal requirement.  It was a busy month, what with Zaxxon's third birthday and making Halloween costumes.  Oh, and speaking of costumes, here's a pic of us in our coordinated Family of Crayola Crayons costumes:
Annnyywaaaay...
When it comes to submissions, this month was an EPIC FAIL!  If I recall, my goal last month was to get them all resubbed in the first week.  Well, I didn't do a single sub all month.  Bad, bad, bad.  Hopefully now that Halloween is over and a good deal of the work involved in finishing the other half of our garage is complete, I can get things subbed before the next wave of holiday craziness.  Hopefully.  Because my stories don't get sold by sitting on my computer, gathering virtual dust.

Here's to a slightly-more-productive November!

1 comment:

Charlie N. Holmberg said...

Ha ha, love the costumes. And good luck with submissions. (I'm tempted to say, "go get 'em, tiger.")

Also, the Pac man pumpkins were only two, and I ended up not running in the Undead Race (I have a list of excuses as to why, including whiplash from falling down the stairs.)

We get told that we look really young a lot. ;) But I definitely do not think you look old! (Just a little violet. Har har.)