Writing Progress Report January 2018 and Annual Review

Writing Progress Report January 2018 and Annual Review

This is my Writing Progress Report January 2018 and Annual Review.

Ollie being cute.

Annual Writing Progress from December 2016 to December 2017

Worked on Assassin in New Marl City. I want to expand the novel from 20 chapters to 36 chapters (98000 words total). I wrote 14 Chapters of the novel this year. After Chapters 29 and 31 are written, then The First Draft will be completed!!!

The stories 4 Humours, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, Get to the Point, and LARP Film Noir have been submitted to magazines.

Statistics of magazine submissions since December 2016 are; 5 different stories submitted a total of 15 times with 0 accepted, 0 pending, and 15 rejections.

Annual Events from December 2016 to December 2017

I attended seven conventions in the past year. They were Winter Fiction Fest in Cleveland, ConCoction in Cleveland, Marcon in Columbus, Cleveland Inkubator at the Cleveland Public Library, Confluence in Pittsburgh, Western Reserve Writers Conference at the Cuyahoga County Public Library, and the Indy Author Day at the Cuyahoga County Public Library.

This is a link to the Cleveland ConCoction website.

http://www.clevelandconcoction.org/

Annual Writing Goals for 2018

Complete the novel Assassin in New Marl City. I want to expand the novel from 20 chapters to 36 chapters (98000 words total). After Chapters 29 and 31 are written, then The First Draft will be completed!!!

Type the Edits for Chapters 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 of Assassin in New Marl City.

Type Chapters 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, and 31.

Polish and submit the stories Chemithurgy, Sleeping Disease, Space-Dog Confession, White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.

Submit 4 Humours, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, and LARP Film Noir to other short fiction magazines.

Hire an editor for Searcher of Riven from Fiveer and then Self Publish the Novelette.

Hire an editor for Ruins of Yarnud from Fiveer and Self Publish the Novella.

Convert a 24000-word Screenplay called Cuba Liberto into a novel of 72000 words.

Annual Planned Events for 2018

I plan to attend ten conventions in 2018. They will be Winter Fiction Fest in Cleveland, ConCoction in Cleveland, the April Western Reserve Writers Conference at the Cuyahoga County Public Library, Marcon in Columbus, Cleveland Inkubator at the Cleveland Public Library, Confluence in Pittsburgh, the September Western Reserve Writers Conference at the Cuyahoga County Public Library, CapClave in Gaithersburg, the Indy Author Day at the Cuyahoga County Public Library, and the Book Baby Authors Convention.

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.

Writing Progress from December 2017

Wrote Chapters 23 and 25 of Assassin in New Marl City.

The stories 4 Humours, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, Get to the Point, and LARP Film Noir have been submitted to magazines.

Statistics of magazine submissions since December 2016 are; 5 different stories submitted a total of 15 times with 0 accepted, 0 pending, and 15 rejections.

Events from December 2017

None to Report.

Writing Goals for January 2018

Continue to work on Assassin in New Marl City. I want to expand the novel from 20 chapters to 36 chapters (98000 words total). Write Chapters 29, and 31 of the novel this month. The First Draft will be completed!!!

Type the Edits for Chapters 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 of Assassin in New Marl City.

Type Chapters 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22 23, 25, 27, and 28.

Polish and submit the stories Hybrid-Dog Confession, White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.

Submit 4 Humours, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, and LARP Film Noir to other short fiction magazines.

Hire an editor for Searcher of Riven from Fiveer.

Hire an editor for Ruins of Yarnud from Fiveer.

Planned Events for January 2018

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.

Links

I wrote four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for December 2017 linked below.

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