This is my Writing Progress Report April 2025.
On March 11th we went to the Cavs game. The Cavs beat Brooklyn, 109 to 104.
Writing Progress from March 2025.
I wrote three blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. One of the posts was my writing progress report for March 2025, which I linked below.
In March 2025, I presented the short story named The Squirrel Curse to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.
I made five posts on my Goodreads account in March 2025.
In the past, I sent the stories; Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, and Grognard to magazines.
The seven Flash Fiction Stories I sent out 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. None for 2024.
Events from March 2025.
I attended the Cleveland Concoction, from March 7, 2025, to March 9, 2025. They will held the conference at the Bertram Inn and Conference Center at 600 North Aurora Road, Aurora, Ohio.
This is a link to the Cleveland Concoction website.
http://www.clevelandconcoction.org/
I also attended the Western Reserve Writers Conference at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Lyndhurst, Ohio on March 22, 2025.
This is a link to the Cuyahoga County Library website.
https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org
Writing Goals for April 2025.
In April 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my Writing Progress Report for April 2025.
I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in April 2025.
Eventually, 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 send the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
In April 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.
Planned Events for April 2025.
The next conference I plan to attend is Balticon, from May 23, 2025, to May 25, 2025. They will hold the conference at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel.
