Writing Progress Report for October 2019
This is my Writing Progress Report for October 2019.
Don’t mess with the snow leopard! I was at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo with the Saint Gobain Crystals Hiking Club on September 28, 2019.
Writing Progress from September 2019
I wrote four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for September 2019 linked below.
I bought and used the editing program Pro Writing Aid to edit my novel, Assassin in New Marl City. I edited and typed Assassin Chapters 30, 32, and 33 in August 2018, reviewed Chapters 34, 35, and 36 in September 2018, and I completed the review in February 2019. Reduced total chapters to 30. Reviewed Chapters 1 to 18 using Pro Writing Aid and submitted it to my novel-writing class. I submitted Chapter 18 in September.
I completed the first draft of Assassin in New Marl City totaling 99,981 words in July 2018. Completed pre-draft two (30 chapters long) in December 2018 at 89,072 words. I completed draft two edits for Chapters 26 and 27 in August; Chapters 28, 29, and 30 in September; and plan to review chapters 21 and 25 in October. I will start the third draft edits after draft two is complete.
In September, I did not submit a story to the Introductory Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio library.
I made five posts on my Goodreads account; created a Gravatar for my website; and updated the books page and the home page of my website in September.
In the past, I submitted the stories The Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, Get to the Point, LARP Film noir, and Sleeping Sickness to magazines.
Statistics of magazine submissions for 2019 are; 1 different story submitted 1 time with 0 accepted, 0 pending, and 1 rejection.
Events from September 2019
The next conference I plan to attend is the Indy Writer’s Conference in Parma, Ohio on October 12, 2019, sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Library.
Link to Cuyahoga County Library website
https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/
Writing Goals for October 2019
I plan to write five blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my Writing Progress Report for October 2019.
I plan to work on second draft edits for Chapters 21, 25, 28, 29, and 30 of Assassin in New Marl City using Pro Writing Aid.
After the second draft is complete, I plan to work on third draft edits for Chapters 1 to 18 of Assassin in New Marl City using comments from the Advanced Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio. I started the third draft edit for Chapter One used at the first pages workshop at Confluence 2019 in July. I plan to complete third draft edits for chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 in October.
Polish and submit the stories Caliburnus, Space-Dog Confession, White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
Submit The Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, LARP Film noir, Sleeping Sickness to other short fiction magazines.
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.
Write a story for the Introductory Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio library.
Work on a story for the Wednesday Writing Workshop at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Library.
I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account; update the information on my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and update all the pages of my website in October.
Planned Events for October 2019
I plan to attend the Indy Writer’s Conference in Parma, Ohio on October 12, 2019, sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Library.
Link to Cuyahoga County Library website