Category: Progress Reports

This is my Writing Progress Report January 2026.

Merry Christmas!

Writing Progress from December 2025.

I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. Including my writing progress report for December 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report December 2025

In December 2025, we did not meet during the holidays at the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call. In January and February, I will write new short stories. Last year I completed the novelette version of Chemithurgy. My plan is to expand the story to novella length in 2026.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in December 2025.

Events from December 2025.

None this month

Writing Goals for January 2026.

In January 2026, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for January 2026.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in January 2026.

In January 2026, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

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, 2023, 2024, or 2025.

I plan to submit short stories in 2026.

Planned Events for January 2026.

The next conference I plan to attend is ConFusion in Novi, Michigan, from January 30, 2026, to February 1, 2025. The conference is located at the Novi Sheraton. The Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association Sponsors ConFusion.

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The con theme next year is Magical ConFusion.

Here’s the registration details.

Registration

This year’s Writing Guest of Honor is Maurice Braddus.

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This is my Writing Progress Report December 2025.

On November 29, 2025, we were watching the Ohio State Buckeyes beat Xichigan, 27 to 9.

Writing Progress from November 2025.

I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. Including my writing progress report for November 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report November 2025

In November 2025, I presented Chapters Seven and Eight of the novelette named Chemithurgy to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call. That completes the novelette version of the story. My plan is to expand the story to novella length in 2026.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in November 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 November 2025.

None this month

Writing Goals for December 2025.

In December 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for December 2025.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in December 2025 for our next meeting in January 2026.

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 December 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Planned Events for December 2025.

The next conference I plan to attend is ConFusion in Novi, Michigan, from January 30, 2026, to February 1, 2025. The Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association Sponsors ConFusion.

Front Page

The con theme next year is Magical ConFusion.

This year’s Writing Guest of Honor is Maurice Braddus.

https://mauricebroaddus.com

This is my Writing Progress Report November 2025.

On October 29^th, 2025, the family prepared six batches of potica, a Slovenian nut bread. This picture was of the loaves before they were baked.

Writing Progress from October 2025.

I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. Including my writing progress report for October 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report October 2025

In October 2025, I presented Chapters Five and Six of the novelette named Chemithurgy to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in October 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 October 2025.

None this month

Writing Goals for November 2025.

In November 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for November 2025.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in November 2025.

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 November 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Planned Events for November 2025.

The next conference I plan to attend is the Philcon Conference, held near Philadelphia, PA from November 21, 2025, to November 23, 2025. They will have the conference at the Doubletree by Hilton in Cherry Hill, NY. I have never attended this conference before.

This is a link to more information about Philcon 2025.

Welcome

This is my Writing Progress Report October 2025.

I attended a reading by John Scalzi at the Parma-Snow Library in Parma, Ohio on September 23, 2025. He read the prologue for his work in progress novel. Everyone in attendance received a copy of his most recent novel, The Shattering Peace. First published September 16, 2025.

Writing Progress from September 2025.

I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. Including my writing progress report for September 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report September 2025

In September 2025, I presented Chapters Three and Four of the novelette named Chemithurgy to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in September 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 September 2025.

None this month

Writing Goals for November 2025.

In October 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for October 2025.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in October 2025.

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 October 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Planned Events for November 2025.

The next conference I plan to attend is the Philcon Conference, held near Philadelphia, PA from November 21, 2025, to November 23, 2025. They will have the conference at the Doubletree by Hilton in Cherry Hill, NY. I have never attended this conference before.

This is a link to more information about Philcon 2025.

Welcome

This is my Writing Progress Report September 2025.

I attended the Asian Lantern Festival at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland, Ohio on August 8, 2025.

Writing Progress from August 2025.

I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. Including my writing progress report for August 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report August 2025

In August 2025, I presented Chapters One and Two of the novelette named Chemithurgy to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in August 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 August 2025.

None this month

Writing Goals for September 2025.

In September 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for September 2025.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in September 2025.

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 September 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Planned Events for September 2025.

The next conference I plan to attend is the Capclave Conference, held near Wahington D. C. from September 19, 2025, to September 21, 2025. They will have the conference at the Rockville Hilton in Rockville, MD. I attended the Capclave in 2016. Looking forward to going again.

This is a link to more information about Capclave 2025.

https://fancons.com/events/info/25228/capclave-2025

This is my Writing Progress Report August 2025.

I attended the Confluence Conference, held near Pittsburgh, PA, from July 25, 2025, to July 27, 2025. They had the conference at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel in Coraopolis, PA.

Writing Progress from July 2025.

I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. Including my writing progress report for July 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report July 2025

In July 2025, I presented the short story named Erebus Project to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in July 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 July 2025.

I attended the Confluence Conference, held near Pittsburgh, PA, from July 25, 2025, to July 27, 2025. They had the conference at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel in Coraopolis, PA. I attended the Confluence in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, (2021 was cancelled due to COVID), 2022, 2023, and 2024.

The link to the Confluence website.

https://confluence-sff.org

Writing Goals for August 2025.

In August 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for August 2025.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in August 2025.

Eventually, I plan to work on the 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 August 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Planned Events for August 2025.

The next conference I plan to attend is the Capclave Conference, held near Wahington D. C. from September 19, 2025, to September 21, 2025. They will have the conference at the Rockville Hilton in Rockville, MD. I attended the Capclave in 2016. Looking forward to going again.

The link to the Capclave website.

This is my Writing Progress Report July 2025.

On May 30, we went to the Cleveland Guardians game at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio. Unfortunately, they lost to the Los Angeles Angels 4 to 1.

Writing Progress from June 2025.

I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. Including my writing progress report for June 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report June 2025

In June 2025, I presented the short story named Erebus to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in June 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 June 2025.

No events in June.

Writing Goals for July 2025.

In July 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for July 2025.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in July 2025.

Eventually, I plan to work on the 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 July 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Planned Events for July 2025.

The next conference I plan to attend is the Confluence Conference, held near Pittsburgh, PA, from July 25, 2025, to July 27, 2025. They will have the conference at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel in Coraopolis, PA. I attended the Confluence in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, (2021 was cancelled due to COVID), 2022, 2023, and 2024.

The link to the Confluence website.

https://confluence-sff.org

This is my Writing Progress Report June 2025.

On May 28, we went to the AC/DC concert at Huntington Field in Cleveland, Ohio. Everyone was wearing light-up devil horns in honor of Angus Young. Great concert.

Writing Progress from May 2025.

I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. Including my writing progress report for May 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report May 2025

In May 2025, I presented the short story named The Case of the Reluctant Pawnbroker to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in May 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 May 2025.

No events in May.

Writing Goals for June 2025.

In June 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for June 2025.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in June 2025.

Eventually, I plan to work on the 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 June 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Planned Events for June 2025.

The next conference I plan to attend is the Confluence Conference, held near Pittsburgh, PA, from July 25, 2025, to July 27, 2025. They will have the conference at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel in Coraopolis, PA. I attended the Confluence in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, (2021 was cancelled due to COVID), 2022, 2023, and 2024.

The link to the Confluence website.

https://confluence-sff.org

Writing Progress Report May 2025.

This is my Writing Progress Report May 2025.

In April, we went to Hawaii on our 30^th Anniversary vacation. This is the view from our hotel room.

Writing Progress from April 2025.

I wrote one blog post for my website, garydavidgillen.com. It was my writing progress report for April 2025, which I linked below.

Writing Progress Report April 2025

In April 2025, I presented the short story named Mixtape to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.

I made five posts on my Goodreads account in April 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 April 2025.

No events in April.

Writing Goals for May 2025.

In May 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com, including my Writing Progress Report for May 2025.

I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in May 2025.

Eventually, I plan to work on the 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 May 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.

Planned Events for May 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.

https://www.balticon.org

This is my Writing Progress Report April 2025.

On March 11^th 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.

Writing Progress Report March 2025

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.