Writing by the numbers - March
Apr. 2nd, 2019 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beehammerI spent the vast majority of March feeling like I'd been kicked right in the brain by a donkey. No rain + incredibly high pollen counts = about three goddamned weeks of dropping just about every ball I had access to. We're talking extreme difficulty walking and chewing gum at the same time, letting things get really out of hand due to lack of emotional and cognitive bandwidth to keep anything tacked down, that sort of thing.
I didn't even break 8,500 words, and most of that was correspondence and various other writerly housekeeping stuff.
In spite of which, I did manage to complete one project, to finish the revisions a publisher had asked for, and to absolutely fucking nail an author interview I nabbed with a featured fiction slot. I even managed to post the fic from last month on AO3, though coming up with the title, tags, description, etc. was the fucking worst--just pulling teeth the whole damn way. So kind of really shitty, but not a total waste as far as things go.
I racked up 4 rejections for one incredibly enthusiastic acceptance, 1 completed revision request and zero new ones, 1 completed new project, and news that my chapbook sold out its first run and will be reprinted.
Could have been better, but all things considered, it was still pretty good.
I didn't even break 8,500 words, and most of that was correspondence and various other writerly housekeeping stuff.
In spite of which, I did manage to complete one project, to finish the revisions a publisher had asked for, and to absolutely fucking nail an author interview I nabbed with a featured fiction slot. I even managed to post the fic from last month on AO3, though coming up with the title, tags, description, etc. was the fucking worst--just pulling teeth the whole damn way. So kind of really shitty, but not a total waste as far as things go.
I racked up 4 rejections for one incredibly enthusiastic acceptance, 1 completed revision request and zero new ones, 1 completed new project, and news that my chapbook sold out its first run and will be reprinted.
Could have been better, but all things considered, it was still pretty good.
