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.
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.
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.