This is because David an I decided to adjust the scoring system (as you can see on the left). Now, a novel submission is only worth 2 points (instead of 10) but we've added a 15 point reward for having an editor request a full manuscript (seeing as David ALREADY got a request for a full!).
So, I'm finishing out the month with 936.
I could've had a lot more, but decided to save my query blitz for the new year (maybe a week or two into January), at David's wise suggestion (since New York is pretty much on vacation for all of December. Why end up at the bottom of a pile of deleted emails?)
So, expect a big bounce in January.
For now, however, this month has not been bad:
- 15 short story submissions
- 32 novel submissions (queries)
- Two weeks over 7,000 words
- And as of right now, 22,956 words (I still have to do my 500 for today).
- I'm now at two full months of 500 words a day (Sundays excluded) and into my 9th straight week of at least one submission per week (I actually have 34 short story subs in the last 9 weeks).
However, I have already surpassed last month by nearly 3,000 words, so that is good enough. As long as I write more than the previous month, I'm good.
I'll update later with my total November word count.
Off to write!
