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For those who may be interested, here is the official graph of my writing:


If you want to see the actual numbers, you can view my progress report here. Note that because I was up late writing Friday night (which it counts as Saturday morning, you know, watching the clock and all) and then had a good day (7,009 words before 9 p.m.), the number for the 28th is actually insanely large (11,141). Yes, I really did get a 10k (plus!) day in this year. Thank goodness for that.

Our region did really well, too:


And now it's over.

Not that I've finished my draft of The Adventures of Jim Bob Drake and His Zombie Blue-Tick Coonhound, Chet. Far from it. But now I can work on some of my other goals while I finish that up.
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Number shorts written: 41

Number sold: 4

Number trunked: 8

Number in "to edit" pile: 11

Number that are really just openings of longer stories: 3

Number currently out to market: 10

Number waiting for specific market to re-open: 1

Number I should get off my butt and get back out to market: 5
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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.
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10 pieces submitted:

  • 4 reviews

  • 3 flash

  • 3 shorts


Of these, two of the shorts have been submitted twice, as have two of the flash pieces.


4 acceptances:

  • 1 short

  • 3 reviews



6 rejections:

  • 3 flash

  • 2 shorts


The shorts are out at new markets, as is one of the flash pieces. I need to look at the other two flash pieces and decide if they are really complete in themselves or if they should be fleshed out into shorts.


4 no response yet:

  • 1 review

  • 1 flash

  • 2 shorts (second submission for each)


4/10 isn't a bad acceptance rate. Even if one discards the reviews from the count, 1/3 isn't bad at all. I expect that will go down as I put more work out. That's normal.

But for a year when I wrote around 180,000 words, that's not a lot done. So where did it all go? Some is in worldbuilding and outlining, in novels that have been started and are on the agenda for completion, a few short stories started but not yet finished, the class I did on sensory perception on Forward Motion, and in crits (yeah, I count these because they increase my awareness of writing).

This year, I'd like to try (though it may fall by the wayside) to monitor how many words go to each area. I also plan to increase both the total words written and number of submissions made.

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