Writing by the numbers - January
Feb. 6th, 2019 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beehammerI decided to give tracking my actual writing numbers a whirl for the year.
It's especially easy when you're going the traditional publishing route to get very discouraged and feel like you're not accomplishing anything, because publishers seem to really like just... not responding in a timely fashion, about anything, ever. So you'll spend all week submitting things and feeling great, and then three months later you've barely got anything more than receipt confirmation emails to show for it, and it sometimes translates into this sensation of having done nothing all summer.
So for January, I managed: 2 completed works of fiction and 30,492 words. I submitted to 6 different places, received 5 rejections and 1 rewrite request from projects sent out last year, and sent out 2 as-yet unanswered queries.
Not a bad month's work.
It's especially easy when you're going the traditional publishing route to get very discouraged and feel like you're not accomplishing anything, because publishers seem to really like just... not responding in a timely fashion, about anything, ever. So you'll spend all week submitting things and feeling great, and then three months later you've barely got anything more than receipt confirmation emails to show for it, and it sometimes translates into this sensation of having done nothing all summer.
So for January, I managed: 2 completed works of fiction and 30,492 words. I submitted to 6 different places, received 5 rejections and 1 rewrite request from projects sent out last year, and sent out 2 as-yet unanswered queries.
Not a bad month's work.
