Writing Progress Report for September 2019

This is my Writing Progress Report for September 2019.

I attended the Ohio State football game on 08-31-19 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. The final score was Ohio State 45 and Florida Atlantic 21.

Writing Progress from August 2019

I wrote five blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for August 2019 linked below.

Writing Progress Report for August 2019

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 on September 2018, and I completed the review in February 2019. Reduced total chapters to 30. Reviewed Chapters 1 to 17 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 26 and 27 in August and plan to review chapters 21, 25, 28, 29, and 30 in September. I will start the third draft edits after draft two is complete.

In August, I submitted a story named Wormhole Generator to the Introductory Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio library.

The stories: I 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 August 2019

The next conference I plan to attend is the Indy Writer’s Conference in Parma, Ohio on October 12, 2019, sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Library.

Link to Cuyahoga County Library website

https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/

Writing Goals for September 2019

I plan to write five blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my Writing Progress Report for September 2019.

I plan to work on second draft edits for Chapters 21, 25, 28, 29, and 30 of Assassin in New Marl City using Pro Writing Aid.

After the second draft is complete, I plan to work on third draft edits for Chapters 1 to 17 of Assassin in New Marl City using comments from the Advanced Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio. I started the third draft edit for Chapter One used at the first pages workshop at Confluence 2019 in July.

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 September 2019