Month: June 2023

This is my Writing Progress Report June 2023.

I attended the Marcon conference in Columbus, Ohio, from May 26, 2023, to May 28, 2023. This picture is from the panel discussion concerning the TV show Babylon 5.

Writing Progress from May 2023.

I wrote two blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. One post was my writing progress report for May 2023, which is linked below.

Writing Progress Report May 2023

In May 2023, I submitted my story, Mixtape, to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.

I submitted a short story, the care, and Training of your new space dog, to the Fiction Writing Workshop at the Parma, Ohio, library in May 2023.

I did not submit a short story to the Critters.org online workshop in May 2023.

Writing Progress from May 2023 Continued

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in May 2023.

In the past, I submitted the stories; Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, and Grognard to magazines.

The seven Flash Fiction Stories I submitted in 2020 and 2021 were Space-Dog Confession, Sleeping Sickness, Caliburnus, Popular Mechanics Re-brewed, Wormhole Generator, Runs with Scissors, and Principled Rogue.

Magazine submissions for 2021 were 4 unique stories submitted 4 times, with 0 accepted, 0 pending, and 4 rejections. No submissions for 2022. None for 2023.

Events from May 2023.

I attended the Marcon conference in Columbus, Ohio, from May 26, 2023, to May 28, 2023. They held the conference at the downtown Columbus Hyatt after holding the conference the last few years at Crowne Plaza North Hotel in Worthington, Ohio.

This is a link to the Marcon website.

https://www.marcon.org/home

This is a link to the Marcon Conference Facebook account.

https://www.facebook.com/MARConOH/

Writing Goals for June 2023.

In June 2023, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my Writing Progress Report for May 2023.

I plan to submit a story to the Fiction Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio, library in June 2023.

In June 2023, I plan to submit a short story to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio, library.

I plan to submit a story to the critters workshop in June 2023.

In June 2023, I plan to work on third draft edits for Assassin in New Marl City using comments from the Novel Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio. I plan to split Chapter 1 into two chapters and add a scene to the new chapter 1.

Submit the stories Space-Dog Confession, Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, LARP Film noir, Sleeping Sickness, Popular Mechanics Re-brewed, and Caliburnus. to other short fiction magazines.

Polish and submit the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.

Writing Goals for June 2023 continued.

In June 2023, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Start an account on the submission grinder.

Put the novel Assassin in New Marl City into the writing program, Scrivener.

Buy an e-book cover for Assassin in New Marl City from Fiveer.

Planned Events for June 2023.

The next event I plan to attend is the Confluence Conference near Pittsburgh, PA, on July 21, 2023, to July 23, 2023. They will hold the conference at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel in Coraopolis, PA. It was an in-person conference this year again, now with no COVID restrictions.

Recap for the Confluence SF Conference Pittsburgh on July 30, 2022, at the Sheraton. I also attended the Confluence in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. I attended 3 panels, two readings, an improv comedy show, a concert, and the guest of honor presentation

Confluence SF Conference Pittsburgh 2022

The link to the Confluence website.

http://parsec-sff.org/confluence/

T-shirt for Confluence 2023.