2006 statistics

[eimarra]

written:

24 short stories
6 essays on forms of poetry
1 essay on grant application
1 review on a writing book
>100 haiku, plus a dozen or so other poems
1 humor piece (collaboration with Valerie Comer)

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worked on, but not yet completed:

2 novels
1 review on museum Websites of interest
4 additional short stories

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23 pieces submitted:

1 review

1 article

14 shorts

7 poems

23 pieces; 51 submissions over the course of the year.

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4 acceptances:

1 short (3rd place in PARSEC's short story contest; accepted pending edits for Triangulation; Triangulation not published this year.)

1 review

1 article

1 humor piece

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36 rejections.


10 no response yet; 7 of them, I expect to hear nothing before February, if not later.

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So where did the words go this year?

short stories: 79,121 (give or take)
articles, essays, reviews: 4,553
poems: 1,602
novel progress: 89,425

About the same number of words counted as last year, but this time without counting crits, worldbuilding, blog posts, or the like. That's improvement. Now commencing three minutes of giddiness before I start examining my goals for 2007.

Comments

[bonniers.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I didn't get even a fraction of that done.

[eimarra]

But you got Joey revised, and you got a good outline for Michael. Since they've both been dragging their heels, that's quite the bit of accomplishment.

[bonniers.livejournal.com]

I'm happy with my work :) But I'm still impressed with yours.

[slobbit.livejournal.com]

Was the giddiness good? Because I think you deserve more than a few minutes of it.

[eimarra]

Perhaps I do, but I spent the day struggling to make Mac OS X user accounts & parental controls, Virtual PC with Windows 98, and a Lego computer game my MIL gave the child work in harmony. That rather dampened the giddiness, though I think I've got it sorted out now.

[slobbit.livejournal.com]

Hey, it still sounds like a better day than mine. Way, way better.

And I spent Christmas Day telling myself I should quit writing altogether, and just about pulling out my hair over this sword-buying nightmare.

[eimarra]

Eek. I am very frightened by the thought of your day now.

Hugs. Of course you shouldn't quit writing altogether! Horse and Monkey and the Fujimori clan need you. Sadly, I occasionally wonder when I get crits back whether I shouldn't give up, since I am so clearly not communicating what I thought I was. {{HUG}}

[l-clausewitz.livejournal.com]

Ah. I should have been able to do that much as well--if I had started writing seriously in January instead of May. I'm that lazy...;P

[eimarra]

Since you are still progressing on Bailo, I presume you will be writing this January. So 2007 should be great! :-D

[l-clausewitz.livejournal.com]

I've done Bailo's first draft--right now I'm working on Gilded Lilies, another novel set in a more medieval fantasy setting. I expect to finish it by around March or April and start revising Bailo right after that--although if I had begun the whole writing thing sooner I believe I'd already be in the middle of that revision by now!

[eimarra]

Don't look back at where you would have been. ;)

I've been enjoying your Gilded Lilies snippets.

You have much writing that you are doing. That is good, any way you look at it.