This is my Writing Progress Report for August 2018.
The Confluence Conference 2018 was held at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport.
Writing Progress from July 2018
Typed chapters 23, 25, 29, and 31 of Assassin in New Marl City in July of 2018. The first draft is complete at 99981 words.
Completed a Query letter I used to find an agent for Assassin in New Marl City and submitted it to the Cleveland Writing Workshop on 07-14-18.
Edited Chapter One of Assassin in New Marl City and submitted it to the Cleveland Writing Workshop on 07-14-18.
Bought and used the editing program Pro Writing Aid to edit the first three chapters for my novel as part of a query submission planned for August 2018.
The stories Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, Get to the Point, and LARP Film Noir has been submitted to magazines.
Statistics of magazine submissions for 2018 are; 0 different stories submitted a total of 0 times with 0 accepted, 0 pending, and 0 rejections.
Events from July 2018
I attended the Cleveland Writing Workshop on July 14, 2018, at the Holiday Inn at 6001 Rockside Road Independence, Ohio. There were five presentations throughout the day. This year’s instructor, Brian A. Klems, critiqued the query letter that I submitted. Editor Ricki Schultz critiqued the first ten pages of my novel, Assassin in New Marl City. I pitched that novel to Agents Cyle Young and Gabrielle Piraino at the event.
The Cleveland Writing Workshop is run by Writing Day Workshops.
This is the link to the Cleveland writing workshop website.
https://clevelandwritingworkshop.com/
I attended the Confluence Conference on July 28, 2018, at the Airport Sheraton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This is the link to the Pittsburgh Confluence website.
http://parsec-sff.org/confluence/
Writing Goals for August 2018
Type the edits for Assassin in New Marl City Chapters 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 in August of 2018.
Complete a query for submission to Agent Cyle Young.
Edit Chapter One of Assassin in New Marl City and submit it to Pitch Wars on 08-28-18.
Complete a Query letter and a synopsis to be submitted to Pitch Wars on 08-28-18.
Edit Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Assassin in New Marl City using comments from the Advanced Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio.
Polish and submit the stories Space-Dog Confession, White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
Submit Grognard to my writing group. Take the feedback and revise the story so it can be submitted to magazines again.
Submit Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, and LARP Film Noir to other short fiction magazines.
Edit Searcher of Riven.
Hire an editor for Searcher of Riven from Fiveer.
Edit Ruins of Yarnud.
Hire an editor for Ruins of Yarnud from Fiveer.
Planned Events for August 2018
Attend the Cleveland Inkubator at the Cleveland Public Library on August 4, 2018. It is sponsored by Literary Cleveland. It is a one-day writing conference.
This is the link to the Literary Cleveland website.
Pitch Wars is a mentoring program contest where contestants submit a finished but unpublished novel to mentors. Each mentor picks one contestant to mentor for the program length. The submission is online on August 28, 2018. I plan to submit a query letter, a synopsis, a 35-word pitch, and the first chapter of my novel to the contest.
Purchase e-book covers for Searcher of Riven and Ruins of Yarnud from Fiveer.
Purchase an e-book cover for Assassin in New Marl City from Fiveer.
Put the novel, Assassin in New Marl City, into the writing program, Scrivener.
Links
Writing Progress Report for August 2018.
I wrote four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for July 2018 linked below.