Writing Progress Report February 2017
This is my Writing Progress Report February 2017.
Writing Progress from January 2017
I wrote four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for January 2017 linked below.
Polished and submitted the stories 4 Humours and Space Station Sunyata to two different short fiction magazines. Grognard is still in review at another magazine.
Worked on polishing and readying the stories Time Traveller One and Prisoner of Tarnal for submission to short fiction magazines. Not ready yet.
I had also planned on polishing and readying the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines, but did not do so.
I wrote a scene from my proposed Torso novel as a proof of concept. Interesting but way down on my list of projects.
Events from January 2017
Created a Twitter account.
Created a Facebook Account.
https://www.facebook.com/gary.gillen.568
Changed my wordpress theme to Twenty Sixteen. It’s better than Twenty Fifteen, but I need to find something better.
Started a Fiveer account. Looking for a map and an e-book cover for A Gathering in New Marl. I’m thinking of re-titling the novel because I know what a gathering means in the context of the novel, but a potential reader would not know what it means. An Assassin in New Marl would fit the plot of the novel better.
The story Grognard is still in review at another magazine.
Writing Goals for February 2017
A Gathering in New Marl (An Assassin in New Marl) is a 55000 word short novel I wrote many years ago. I want to expand the novel from 20 chapters to 36 chapters (100000 words total). I intend to follow the method described in Sarah Domet’s book called 90 Days to Your Novel.
This is a link to Goodreads page for the book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11650970-the-90-day-novel
The book starts with 21 exercises that I plan to complete in the month of February. After that I will write the 16 new chapters of the novel in an additional 20 weeks.
Polish and submit the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, Time Traveller One, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
Submit 4 Humours to another short fiction magazine.
Planned Events for February 2017
Order a map from Fiveer.
Work on completing a Query letter to use to find an agent for An Assassin in New Marl.
I will attend the Winter Fiction Fest on February 18th that is being held at Loganberry Books at 13015 Larchmere Blvd. Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120 and is sponsored by Literary Cleveland. There will be four panels presented which will feature Mary Doria Russell, Casey Daniels and Shelly Costa, DM Pulley, Geoffrey Landis and Mary Turzillo.
