Short Story Submissions On a Roll! In April, I gave the update that my original goal planning was not cutting it, and so I made a stretch goal – submit (and get rejections [for]) sixty (60) short stories this year. This will lead up linearly until in my fifth true year of submissions, I’m aiming…

Original Plans Change My original stated goal for my short stories was 42 submissions in 2022. However, by the end of January, I realized that wasn’t pushing me at all. In fact, I was already ahead of the submission curve and it wasn’t any pressure to produce new submittable stories. I also had been incredibly…

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash It’s the last Friday of the year and time to assess my success at meeting my writing goals for the year and set new goals for 2022!I posted my original goals at the end of 2020, and two updates-one in April and the other in August.  Short Stories Short…

It’s the end of August, and it’s a good time to do an update of if I’m meeting my yearly goals as a writer. I posted one of these updates at the end of April. Because my goals aren’t huge in terms of numbers, only updating about every four months is reasonable. If I had…

I posted a summary of 2020 and goals for 2021 at the end of December. We are one-third of the way through the year, and it seems like a great time to do an update of meeting my goals. Short Stories Polishing a story to submission: By now I should have four new stories done…

What I accomplished in 2020NovelI completed my novel, Slipping, at the tail end of 2019. I spent the first three months of 2020 trying to get people to read it for feedback. I chased friends who I thought would be good because they read so much and so fast. What I needed were other authors.…