This is my Writing Progress Report for July 2019.
On June 30, 2019, the Cleveland Orchestra played the score for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone live at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Great performance. Glad I went.
Writing Progress from June 2019
I wrote five blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for June 2019 linked below.
I bought and used the editing program Pro Writing Aid to edit the novel, Assassin in New Marl City. I edited and typed Assassin Chapters 30, 32, and 33 in August 2018, reviewed Chapters 34, 35, and 36 in September 2018, and I completed the review in February 2019. Reduced total chapters to 30. Reviewed Chapters 1 to 15 using Pro Writing Aid and submitted to my novel writing class.
I completed the first draft of Assassin in New Marl City totaling 99,981 words in July 2018. Completed pre-draft two (30 chapters long) in December 2018 at 89,072 words. I completed draft two edits for Chapters 18, 19, and 20 in June and will start the third draft edits after draft two is complete.
In June, I submitted a story called Time Traveler Uncle Jim to the Introductory Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio library.
In May, I edited and submitted the short story Grognard to the Confluence Short Story Writing Workshop. Cat Rambo will conduct the workshop at the Science Fiction Convention named Confluence in Pittsburgh on Sunday, July 28.
I have submitted The Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, Get to the Point, LARP Film noir, and Sleeping Sickness to magazines.
Statistics of magazine submissions for 2019 are; 1 different story submitted 1 time with 0 accepted, 0 pending, and 1 rejection.
Events from June 2019
The next conference I plan to attend is the Confluence Conference from July 26 to July 28, 2019, at the Airport Sheraton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I’m excited to take part in two workshops at the conference both instructed by Cat Rambo. I will attend the first pages workshop and the short story workshop.
Link to Confluence website
http://parsec-sff.org/confluence/
Writing Goals for July 2019
I plan to write five blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my Writing Progress Report for July 2019.
I plan to work on second draft edits for Chapters 21 to 30 of Assassin in New Marl City using Pro Writing Aid.
I plan to work on third draft edits for Chapters 1 to 15 of Assassin in New Marl City using comments from the Advanced Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio after the second draft is complete.
I will do the third draft edit for Chapter one to use at the first pages workshop at Confluence 2019.
In July, I plan to submit a story called White Bracer to the Intermediate Writing Workshop at South Euclid-Lyndhurst, Ohio library.
Polish and submit the stories Caliburnus, Space-Dog Confession, White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
Submit The Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, LARP Film noir, Sleeping Sickness 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.
Put the novel, Assassin in New Marl City, into the writing program, Scrivener.
Buy e-book covers for Searcher of Riven and Ruins of Yarnud from Fiveer.
Buy an e-book cover for Assassin in New Marl City from Fiveer.
Planned Events for July 2019
The next conference I plan to attend is the Confluence Conference from July 26 to July 28, 2019, at the Airport Sheraton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I’m excited to take part in two workshops at the conference both instructed by Cat Rambo. I will attend the first pages workshop and the short story workshop.
Link to Confluence website