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April 24, 2006
Today’s Tally
It’s day three of the full-time writing and editing plan, and things are going pretty well.
Saturday was productive but Sunday morning I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to get anything done. So, I took a nap. When I woke, I felt better and promptly put in six hours of work in the afternoon and evening.
I’ve been averaging about 5-6 hours a day so far. I think that’s pretty good. If I average 6 hours a day, 7 days a week, that’s 42 hours, which is full-time. I should be able to accomplish something with that much time and effort, right?
Some days it’s more editing; some days more writing. Yesterday was a writing day. I worked on four stories and was able to finalize, print and package them all by the end of the day. Obviously, they weren’t stories I started from scratch yesterday. They just needed a little more polishing and to be matched up with the right market before being sent out into the world.
I mailed all four of them this morning. (That’s such a great feeling!) Then I was able to finalize and submit another one today--an essay, not a story. (That one was tougher. I worked some on it yesterday but it needed a good bit more work today.)
That’s five submissions out in one day. That’s not bad. Actually that’s pretty good.
I haven’t gotten much else done today though. (Too many errands and running around and such to do today.) But the day’s not over yet. I hope to get more writing in tonight, and maybe read a DKA submission or two.
This is what today’s tally looks like, so far:
5 subs away
published a new story at DKA (“The White Spider” – see previous post)
posted re: new story in all the usual places (wouldn’t want anyone to miss it!)
accepted a poem for DKA (you’ll love it, we did)
read one DKA sub
did a little writing
miscellaneous emails and posts
Now comes the part of submitting that I hate--the waiting and wondering. Well, waiting and obsessing would be more accurate. But I am working on that “obsessing” thing. Must let go, must let go, must…
Uggh! I better distract myself with a whole lot of writing.
Posted by Selena at April 24, 2006 07:31 PM