October Summary

Well, I am pleased to say that October went pretty well.

I started regular writing again, after a crazy and irregular summer that included a trip to workshops in Oregon, selling our house, moving out, buying our new house, and eventually moving in, then doing tons of home projects.

Anyway, I wrote my minimum of 500 words a day every day in October (Sundays, as always, excluded). That means a writing streak of 31 days (or, technically 27 actual writing days). I still haven't figured out how to count that.

I now have four consecutive weeks of over 3,500 words, and I surpassed by goal of 20,000 words for the month, finishing at 20,342. I made 19 short story submissions in October, and completed my YA novel, UNCLE SAM.

And . . . I have finally succeeded in attaining (for now) my goal of having at least 50% of my short story inventory out for sale. (I'm at 51% with 23 stories submitted currently).

My Fiction Writing Face-Off score is now up to 715.

For November, my word count goal goes up by 5,000 to 25,000 (a mere half of a NaNoWriMo), and I will continue my 2009 goal of a minimum of one short story submission per week. My other big goal for November is to submit both ASSASSINWARE and UNCLE SAM to at least one market each (though I expect to easily surpass that, once I get this whole query-writing and synopsis thing down).

I will also strive to keep 50% of my short story inventory submitted, though I know I will need to find some new markets to accomplish that.

Good luck with November, David and Paul! Here's to a fantastic writing and submitting month!

(And congrats to David and his family for their new addition, Kaden!)