Writing Progress Report December 2016
This is my Writing Progress Report December 2016.
Writing Progress from November 2016
I wrote seven blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for November 2016 linked below.
My original plan was to write a story called Dogman, but I decided to postpone that story because revising Kay-Eye took more time than I expected.
Complete a rewrite of Kay-Eye, it took much longer than anticipated, two weeks. I wrote the first half of the story in 2012. It was set on Catalina Island in California. I wrote the second half of the story in 2015. It was set on Kelly’s Island in Ohio. I combined the story parts from 2012 and from 2015 and add four pages interweaved into the story. I chose to increase the story sections from six to eight by splitting two of the original story sections into four-story sections. Much easier said than done. After that, I revised and typed it to submit to my writing workshop.
Revised and typed White Bracer.
Revised and typed Mage Squad.
Polish and submit Kay-Eye to my writer’s workshop.
Events from November 2016
I attended the Indy Author Conference at the Parma-Snow Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library on 11-12. I wrote a separate post on the conference.
Updated website banner on garydavidgillen.com, I used the program GIMP to add the website title on top of a picture.
Wrote posts on five book reviews to get the book review posts up to current reading.
Postponed setting up Facebook and Twitter accounts until December 2016, due to completing other tasks.
Writing Goals for December 2016
Polish and submit the stories 4 Humours, Grognard, and Space Station Sunyata to three different short fiction magazines.
Polish and ready the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, Time Traveller One, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
Planned Events for December 2016
Create Facebook and Twitter pages.
Update Website to the Himmelan WordPress Theme.
I will attend the Winter Fiction Fest on February 18, 2017. They will hold the conference at Loganberry Books at 13015 Larchmere Blvd, Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120. The conference is sponsored by Literary Cleveland. They will present four panels featuring Mary Doria Russell, Casey Daniels and Shelly Costa, DM Pulley, Geoffrey Landis, and Mary Turzillo.
This is a link to the Literary Cleveland Website.