This is my Writing Progress Report June 2018.
South Euclid/Lyndhurst Branch of the Cuyahoga County Library
Writing Progress from May 2018
I typed the edits for Assassin in New Marl City Chapters 24 and 26 in May of 2018.
I typed chapters 10, 27, and 28 of Assassin in New Marl City in May of 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 May 2018
I attended the Pitch Perfect Workshop on May 8 and May 22. The Workshop was sponsored by Literary Cleveland. It covered how to create a pitch letter for freelance writing. The workshop content was applicable to writing query letters for agent representation by fiction writers.
I attended the Marcon Conference on May 12, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, Ohio. I drove to Columbus from Cleveland in the morning. The first activities were scheduled at 10:00 AM. I arrived at 10:30 AM, registered for the day, and went to the con suite for an early lunch. Activities were spaced in 90-minute blocks. The activities generally lasted 75 minutes with a 15-minute break until the next activity. The categories of the activities were Anime, Art, Comics, Cosplay, Fan Life, Filk, Gaming, Literary, Media, Science, and Youth. I attended four panels and two game shows.
Link to the Marcon website.
Writing Goals for June 2018
Type the edits for Assassin in New Marl City Chapters 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 in June of 2018.
Type Chapters 12, 15, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, and 31 of Assassin in New Marl City in June of 2018.
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 4 Humours, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, and LARP Film Noir to other short fiction magazines.
Hire an editor for Searcher of Riven from Fiveer.
Hire an editor for Ruins of Yarnud from Fiveer.
Planned Events for June 2018
Attend Killer Heat: A Mystery Writers Weekend on June 9th, 2018. It is sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Public Library. The location is the South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library at the William N. Skirball writer’s center which is located at the branch on 1876 South Green Road South Euclid, Ohio 44121.
Purchase an e-book cover for Assassin in New Marl City from Fiveer.
Put the first ten chapters of Assassin in New Marl City into the writing program, Scrivener.
Work on completing a Query letter to use to find an agent for Assassin in New Marl.
Links
Writing Progress Report June 2018
I wrote five blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for May 2018 linked below.