Writing Progress Report August 2022.
This is my Writing Progress Report August 2022.
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Writing Progress from July 2021.
I wrote two blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. One post was my writing progress report for July 2022, which is linked below.
In July 2022, I submitted Chapter 21 of my novel titled Cuba Liberto to the Novel Writing Workshop at the Parma, Ohio, library.
I submitted my short story, “Mixtape,” to the Fiction Writing Workshop at the Parma, Ohio, library in July 2022.
Writing Progress from July 2022 Continued
I made five posts on my Goodreads account in July 2022.
In the past, I submitted the stories; Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, and Grognard to magazines.
The seven Flash Fiction Stories I submitted in 2020 and 2021 were Space-Dog Confession, Sleeping Sickness, Caliburnus, Popular Mechanics Re-brewed, Wormhole Generator, Runs with Scissors, and Principled Rogue.
Magazine submissions for 2021 were 4 unique stories submitted 4 times, with 0 accepted, 0 pending, and 4 rejections. No submission for 2022 yet.
Events from July 2022.
I attended the Confluence conference near Pittsburgh, PA, on July 30, 2022. They held the conference at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel in Coraopolis, PA. It was an in-person conference this year.
Recap for the Confluence SF Conference Pittsburgh on July 30, 2022, at the Sheraton. I also attended Confluence in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. I attended 3 panels, two readings, an improv comedy show, a concert, and the guest of honor presentation
The link to the Confluence website.
http://parsec-sff.org/confluence/
Banner for Confluence 2022.
Writing Goals for August 2022.
I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my Writing Progress Report for August 2022.
I am working on a novel titled Cuba Liberto. The first draft was a script. My plan for the rewrite is to convert the story into 24 Chapters. I plan to complete writing Chapter 22 in August 2022 and submit it to the Novel Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio, library.
In August 2022, I plan to submit a story to the Fiction Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio, library.
I plan to submit a story to the critters workshop in August 2022.
I plan to work on third draft edits for Assassin in New Marl City using comments from the Novel Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio. In August 2022, I plan to split Chapter 1 into two chapters and add a scene to the new Chapter 1.
Submit the stories Space-Dog Confession, Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, LARP Film noir, Sleeping Sickness, Popular Mechanics Re-brewed, and Caliburnus. to other short fiction magazines.
Polish and submit the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
Writing Goals for August 2022 continued.
In August 2022, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.
Put the novel Assassin in New Marl City into the writing program, Scrivener.
Buy an e-book cover for Assassin in New Marl City from Fiveer.
Planned Events for August 2022.
The next event I plan to attend is Inkubator 2022 at the Cleveland Public Library on September 10, 2022. It is sponsored by Literary Cleveland. It is a two-day in-person writing conference with virtual events throughout the prior week.
This is the link to the Literary Cleveland website.
I also want to attend the Capclave Washington Conference 2022 from September 30 to October 2, 2022, in Rockville, Maryland. The conference is run by the Washington Science Fiction Association of Washington. It is a literary science fiction and fantasy conference which focuses on short fiction.
https://www.capclave.org/capclave/capclave22/
Their motto is: Where reading is not extinct.