This is my Writing Progress Report February 2024.
Watched the play Mrs. Doubtfire on January 12, 2024, at the Connor Palace Theater in Cleveland, Ohio to celebrate my sister-in-law’s birthday.
Writing Progress from January 2024.
I wrote one blog post for my website, garydavidgillen.com. The post was my writing progress report for January 2024, which is linked below.
In January 2024, I submitted Chemithurgy Chapter Three (Section Two) to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.
Writing Progress from January 2024 Continued
I made five posts on my Goodreads account in January 2024.
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 submissions for 2022. None for 2023.
Events from January 2024.
I attended ConFusion in Novi, Michigan, from January 19, 2024, to January 21, 2024. The Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association Sponsors ConFusion.
The con theme this year is Labyrinth of Confusion.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ConFusionSF/
I attended 3 panels, an author reading, and watched the movie Labyrinth in the Boardroom.
Writing Goals for February 2024.
In February 2024, I plan to write five blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my Writing Progress Report for February 2024.
In February 2024, plan to submit a story to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.
I plan to work on third draft edits for Assassin in New Marl City using comments from the Novel Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio. 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.
In February 2024, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.
Planned Events for February 2024.
The next conference I plan to attend is the Cleveland Concoction, from March 8, 2024, to March 10, 2024. They will hold the conference at the Bertram Inn and Conference Center at 600 North Aurora Road, Aurora, Ohio.
This is a link to the ConCoction website.
http://www.clevelandconcoction.org/
Another event I plan to attend is the Western Reserve Writers Conference at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Lyndhurst, Ohio on March 23, 2024.
This is a link to the Cuyahoga County Library website.
https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/
