2024 is my year of short stories. In this weekly series, I talk about the stories I’m working on, from idea and draft to submission.
- Stories in Progress – 5+
- Submissions This Week – 1
- Submissions Currently Out – 6
- Acceptances This Year – 1
- Rejections This Year – 26 (10 personalized)
PerShoStoWriMo
Week one of my personal short story writing month is in the books, and it didn’t go well!
Okay, that’s not entirely true. I definitely didn’t pull NaNoWriMo “par” numbers, and I missed three days entirely. I’m currently trending toward about 50% of the goal wordcount of 50,000 words by the end of November. And yet, I’m pretty happy with my progress. I’ve blasted through drafts of four short stories so far, and I’m deep into a fifth (considerably longer) story.
I’m being productive with the time I have available. As usual I’m juggling my day job, my kids activities, and other family stuff.
Plus, I have over a week of vacation planned in November, so I may have some time to catch up. Even if I don’t, I’ll still be glad to have gotten quite a few words on the page.
Submissions
I resubmitted The Incident at Pleasant Hills, which came back to me last week.
I’m hoping that I’ll get some responses in the next month or so, but with end-of-year holidays fast approaching, I expect anything that I submit through the end of the year to be out until 2025.
Critiques
I’m still getting caught up on Critters critiques, but the end is in sight now. I’ll catch up sometime this week. This past week is actually when Red Eyes would have hit the top of the queue, so I’m not doing too bad in that regard.
Goals for Next Week
- Get caught up on critiques!
- Keep writing short stories for PerShoStoWriMo!
Words Deferred 