Writing Progress Report August 2017
This is my Writing Progress Report August 2017.
This is the first novel that I ever owned. It was about forty years ago when I got it.
Writing Progress from July 2017
I wrote five blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for July 2017 linked below.
Typed Chapter 11 of Assassin in New Marl City
Wrote Chapter 13 of Assassin in New Marl City
Started Chapter 14 of Assassin in New Marl City
Submitted Chemithurgy to a writing workshop
Wrote a chapter of Torso novel to submit to a writing workshop
The stories 4 Humours, Space Station Sunyata, and Grognard are ready to be submitted to magazines.
Statistics of magazine submissions since December 2016 are; 3 different stories submitted a total of 10 times with 0 accepted, 1 pending, and 9 rejections.
Events from July 2017
Attended the Cleveland Inkubator at the Cleveland Public Library on July 29, 2017. It is sponsored by Literary Cleveland. It is a one day writing conference.
This is the link to the Literary Cleveland website.
Writing Goals for August 2017
Continue to work on An Assassin in New Marl City. I want to expand the novel from 20 chapters to 36 chapters (100000 words total). Finish Chapter 14, write Chapter 22, and write Chapter 29 of the novel this month.
Type the Edits for Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Assassin in New Marl City.
Edit Chapters 15, 16, 18, and 20 of Assassin in New Marl City.
Polish and submit the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, Time Traveller One, Prisoner of Tarnal, Kay-Eye, Cosplay Film Noir, and Get to the Point for submission to short fiction magazines.
Submit 4 Humors, Space Station Sunyata, and Grognard to other short fiction magazines.
Planned Events for August 2017
Attend the Confluence Conference on August 4 to August 6, 2017 at the Airport Sheraton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The link to the Confluence website.
http://parsec-sff.org/confluence/
Purchase an e-book cover for Assassin in New Marl City from Fiveer.
Put the first ten chapters of Assassin in New Marl City into the writing program Scrivener.
Work on completing a Query letter to use to find an agent for Assassin in New Marl City.