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07/05/10, Monday, no work (4th of July observed!)
* Queried last 2 agents on my A-list for Vicesteed. Now I'm done with Vicesteed until I hear back from somebody, or at least for a couple of months--at which point it'll be time to query my next batch of preferred agents. Whew! Also, this feels so weird!
* Submitted "Demons of Disease" to Bizarro Magazine.
* Submitted "Gone Huntin'" to Flash Me Magazine.
* Submitted "Good Help Is Hard to Find" to Title Goes Here.
* Submitted "Look Back to Keep Her" to Flash Fiction Online.
* Submitted "Road of Dreams" to Neo-Opsis
* Read WritersMarket and Duotrope newsletters and updated market list from them.
* Nonstandard Structure: http://mrissa.livejournal.com/727223.html

Tried to see where I could send "Salvaging Scottwell" next--and blanched at the lack of options for an 11,000 word reprint. Yoiks. Well, I'll Escape Pod it even though it's longer than they usually take, but beyond that...hrm. It's a really good story (other people think so too!) but what to do with it? Small press publication as a novella? Is that too short? (Ideas,

mmeriam?)

05/12/10, Wednesday
* Finished Critters critique and began MinnSpec one.
* Prepped Vicesteed ch. 31 for edits.
* Began making editing changes on Vicesteed ch. 30.
* Took down "Salvaging Scottwell" from Bookrix. I have learned a very valuable lesson, and that lesson is that I really don't have time to do a popularity-based writing contest properly. I just don't, and I shouldn't try.
* Worked on brainstorming "Remediation Town," the desertification-and-algal-bloom story. Not done yet. Need good reasons a bandit chief *wouldn't* want a town to prey on.
* Read Critters newsletter.

05/11/10, Tuesday, worked full-time and then had bridge night. But had a goodly amount of downtime at work.
* Finished redmarking Vicesteed ch. 30.
* Finished writing this Platinadar letter and typed it up. Just need to clean up my misc. notes and it's good to go.

05/10/10, Monday
* Processed Andromeda Inflight Magazine's form letter rejection of "Demons of Disease."
* Worked on redmarking Vicesteed ch. 30.

05/09/10, Sunday
* Attended CoyoteCon online panels.
* Read Duotrope, FFWSmallMarkets, and Ralan newsletters and updated markets from them.
* Told Critters about sale/pub of "The Radiator Burped" and "These Things Take Time."
* Revised the "to do once published/accepted" list.

05/087/10, Saturday
* Attended Coyote Con online panels.
* Read FundsforWriters and FFWSmallMarkets newsletters.
* Posted writing log, freewriting.
* Processed publishing contract for "The Radiator Burped" reprint in Northern Lights: A MinnSpec Anthology.
* Posted about publication of "A fob chain went under his vest, between ribs..." to Fb, LJ, Twitter,

05/05/10, Wednesday
* Processed payment status update for "These Things Take Time."
* Processed receipt acknowledgment for "Demons of Disease."
* Posted writing log, freewriting.
* Worked on redmarking Vicesteed ch. 30.
* Did Critters critique.
* Drafted "Rolling a To-Do List."

05/03/10, Monday
* Posted writing log, freewriting.
* Prepped Critters mss for critting.
* Submitted "Demons of Disease" to Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (still one of the best SF magazine titles ever).
* Submitted "The Miracle Material" to Zoetrope: All-Story.
* Wrote one page longhand on Platinadar.

(And yes, I totally just wrote a list of all the things I needed to catch up on and then started rolling a D6 to decide what to do next. I should really keep that D6, too, as it tended to roll high. Disproportionate number of sixes [which meant non-writing paperwork, worse luck].)

Tuesday was spent getting non-writing things done.
* Wrote 2 1/2 pgs. longhand on Alien/Whore/Mother (took the bus instead of biking)

03/22/10, Monday, worked fill-in shift until 9PM
* Processed "Road of Dreams" receipt acknowledgment.
* Processed "These Things Take Time" contract, signed, and sent back.
* Posted freewriting,
* Processed Basement Stories' form letter rejection of "Demons of Disease."
* Processed "The Perfect Costume" receipt acknowledgment from Best New Vampire Tales.
* Typed up my notes from the MinnSpec meeting on copyright, and discovered I'd actually just written a how-to writing article. Huh. Guess I'll polish it up and try submitting it elsewhere before posting it on my blog.
* Worked a little on redmarking Vicesteed ch. 29
* Wrote 1/2 pg. longhand on Alien/Whore/Mother.

03/06/10, Sunday
* Read Ralan, WritersWeekly, Writing-World, Lunch Weekly, FFWSmallMarkets, FundsforWriters, Duotrope, and 2 WritersDigest newsletters and updated market list from them.
* An exercise for writing a query letter with voice: http://elanajohnson.blogspot.com/2010/02/writing-query-letter-with-voice.html
* The Starter Guide to Twitter: http://tribalwriter.com/2010/02/22/a-writers-starter-guide-to-twitter-or-everything-i-wish-someone-had-told-me-when-i-first-started-using-twitter/
* Approaches to making a living as a writer: http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/files/2010/02/Guillebeau_WD.pdf
* Processed the OG's form rejection of "They'll Fix Any Leak, Guaranteed!"
* Processed Apex's receipt acknowledgment for "The Miracle Material."
* Updated market list from updates sent in.
* Submitted "The Haunts of Hill Crossing" to Strange Horizons and processed receipt acknowledgment.
* Submitted "Demons of Disease" to Basement Stories.
* Submitted "They'll Fix Any Leak, Guaranteed!" to Strangetastic.
* Submitted "Gone Huntin'" to Flash Fiction Online and processed receipt acknowledgment.
* Much belatedly processed a crit of Vicesteed chs. 33-34.

02/09/10, Tuesday, worked a full day, but with downtime.
* Finished writing Vespa's Letter to Platinadar, typed up during work downtime, and sent on its merry way.

02/08/10, Monday
* Finished writing "Ekaterina and the Firebird." Felt all accomplished because I'd hit the ending and all that--and then realized I had to go back to the beginning and fill in transitions and research [brackets]. Not done yet! Alas, alack!
* Began writing "Letter to Platinadar" on the bus.

02/07/10, Sunday
* Updated market list from link submitted.
* Processed payment for "Salvaging Scottwell" and "The Key to His Heart." Go go gadget spreadsheets!
* Read Writer's Digest, Publishers Lunch, WritersWeekly, WritersMarket, WritingWorld, FundsforWriters, WritersMarket, Duotrope, Ralan, and FFWSmallMarkets newsletters and updated markets from them.
* Flow: http://blog.writersdigest.com/mfaconfidential/On+Words+Flowing+And+Why+Its+Worth+It.aspx
* Submitted "The Perfect Costume" to Extreme Creatures Anthology for reprint.
* Submitted "Good Help is Hard to Find" to GUD.
* Submitted "Demons of Disease" to Arkham Tales--and whoa! realized it was my 108th story submission since I started using my own spreadsheet to track.
* Finished typing up what has been written longhand of "Ekaterina and the Fire Bird" (4,463 words)

02/06/10, Saturday, Phil's game all p.m., then friends birthday dinner.
* Posted writing log, freewriting, NanoWri
* Typed up almost all the rest of "Ekaterina."

01/10/2010, Sunday
* Read WritersDigest, FundsforWriters, and Writing-World newsletters.
* Kelly Carmichael's comprehensive and step-by-step guide to writing a synopsis: http://www.kathycarmichael.com/articles-and-seminars/articles-and-workshops/general-fiction-synopsis/general-fiction-synopsis-seminar/
* Posted writing log.
* Penthius freewriting.
* Updated Aswiebe's Market List from Ralan.com.
* Submitted "Demons of Disease" to Null Immortalis Anthology, and processed receipt acknowledgment.
* Withdrew "These Things Take Time" from Alternative Coordinates, as I'd accidentally re-submitted it there.
* Submitted "Warmth in the Cold Time" to Realms of Fantasy, one of the remaining requirers of snail-mail submissions.

01/05/2010, Tuesday, full day at job
* "Ekaterina and the Firebird," wrote 111 Google docs words at the day job, and 1 1/2 pgs longhand (about 225 words) on the bus. The first day of this experiment is going okay.
* Worked on making editing changes to Vicesteed, ch. 23.
* Penthius freewriting about tech support--while I was on the phone with tech support because the internets were cranky.

01/04/2010, Monday, full day at job
* Processed "Enjoyed, but no" personal rejection of "Warmth in the Cold Time."
* Processed "Not what I'm looking for, but submit again" personal rejection of "Good Help is Hard to Find."
* Posted writing log.
* Freewriting.
* Processed Timelines Anthology form rejection of "Demons of Disease"
* Hunted around to see if an anthology spoke to me, and found the next place to submit 2 of my stories.

11/30/2009 - Monday, full day at job
* How to respond to a manuscript critique/editorial letter: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2009/11/how-to-respond-to-manuscript.html

11/29/2009 - Sunday
* Read Duotrope and Critters newsletters and updated market list from them.
* Filled out questionnaire for Spec the Halls listing at Ralan.
* Updated bibliography document to add recent sales "Salvaging Scottwell" and "Missing You In Pieces," processed submission and document tracking spreadsheets, and updated Critters bio, LJ profiles,

penthius freewriting entries, Facebook profile, website bio and bibliography sections. Every writer should keep a list of where to update when stories get accepted/published.
* Processed "Haunts of Hill Crossing" form letter rejection from Way of the Wizard Anthology (and by extension F&SF Magazine).
* Updated submission order for "Haunts of Hill Crossing" and submitted to Fantasy Magazine. Marveled at their submission process and stated turnaround time.
* Updated submission order for "A Phoenix By Any Other Name" and submitted to Short-Story.me!
* Emailed market that hadn't yet responded to a March submission, withdrawing "Demons of Disease" from consideration. Updated submission order and sent to the Timelines Anthology. Hope that cryogenic freezing counts as time-travel. Processed receipt acknowledgment.
* Updated status of "They'll Seal Any Leak, Guaranteed!" I'm so bad at processing ones that are "we'll tell you by X if we want it--otherwise you won't hear from us" but I was worried I'd have to start submitting out my literary stories. Shudder.
* Posted writing log.
* Did NanoWriMo--and I'm not too happy with how that experiment is working out. Will have to do massive rewrite and am not even done with the story yet.

03/15/2009 - Sunday
* MinnSpec meeting on developing your protagonist, then workshop that got Vicesteed chapters 23-24(partial) through. There was much discussion of The Necessity for Climbing a Wall.

03/14/2009 - Saturday the 14th, 1/2 work at NgithOwl
* Processed 2nd (?) acknowledgment of receipt for "Demons of Disease."
* Submitted "A Phoenix By Any Other Name" to Fusion Fragment, and discovered 2 dead markets in my market listings spreadsheet while figuring out where to submit it too.
* Thanks to a tip from Inktea, figured out I'd submit "Dining on a Dead Girl's Dime" to http://mnartists.org/article.do?rid=225909 next. Which is good, because I have *such* difficulty figuring out where to submit my literary stories. I write one of them and think, "Ugh. I committed literature again. So much more annoying to try and sell!" Added it to calendar and submission order spreadsheet.
* Updated market list from Duotrope.

03/13/2009 - Friday the 13th, full work at IDS (with some downtime)
* Critiqued final manuscript for Minnspec critique meeting.
* Read WritersMarket, FFWSmallMarkets, FundsforWriters newsletters.
* Began critique for Critters workshop.
* Via Nathan Bransford's post (http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/2009/03/this-week-in-publishing_13.html), I discovered the wonderful Query Shark (http://queryshark.blogspot.com/) and promptly added it to my feeds.
( More writing logs. Haven't done this in a while. )

01/22/2009 - Thursday, no work
* Posted writing log.
* Penthius freewriting--about getting laid off. Economy on my mind much?
* Submitted "These Things Take Time" to Triangulations: Dark Glass.
* Submitted "Warmth in the Cold Time" to Horror Garage.
* Submitted "The Radiator Burped" to The Edge of Propinquity.
* Submitted "Demons of Disease" to Polluto Magazine.

01/23/2009 - Friday, no work, but was shanghaied by a funk.
* Processed "submission received" emails.

01/24/2009 - Saturday, full+ work
* Read Writer's Digest, WritersWeekly newsletters
- Detailed guide to AP style: http://www.usu.edu/journalism/faculty/sweeney/resources/ap.htm

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