Writing Progress Report March 2017
This is my Writing Progress Report March 2017.
The old stump in the snow.
Writing Progress from February 2017
I wrote three blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for February 2017 linked below.
I completed 9 of the 21 exercises from Sarah Domet’s book called 90 Days to Your Novel.
Submitted the story 4 Humours to a short fiction magazine.
The stories 4 Humours and Space Station Sunyata are still in review at other magazines.
The story Grognard was not accepted.
Events from February 2017
I attended the Winter Fiction Fest on February 18th that was held at Loganberry Books at 13015 Larchmere Blvd. Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120 and was sponsored by Literary Cleveland. There were four panels presented which featured Mary Doria Russell, Casey Daniels and Shelly Costa, DM Pulley, Geoffrey Landis, and Mary Turzillo.
Attended the volunteer meeting for Concoction on February 21, 2017, at Critical Hit Games 13433 Cedar Road Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118. Learned about the convention and signed up to help.
Writing Goals for March 2017
A Gathering in New Marl (New name is An Assassin in New Marl City) is a 55000-word short novel I wrote many years ago. I want to expand the novel from 20 chapters to 36 chapters (100000 words total). I intend to follow the method described in Sarah Domet’s book called 90 Days to Your Novel.
This is a link to Goodreads page for the book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11650970-the-90-day-novel
The book starts with 21 exercises that I plan to complete. After that I will write the 16 new chapters of the novel in an additional 20 weeks. My March plan is to finish the exercises and write three of the additional 16 chapters.
Polish and submit the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, Time Traveller One, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
Submit Grognard to another short fiction magazine.
Planned Events for March 2017
Planning on purchasing a map and an e-book cover for An Assassin in New Marl City from Fiveer.
Download the trial of the writing program Scrivener and use it on my novel to see if I like it.
Work on completing a Query letter to use to find an agent for An Assassin in New Marl.
Attend ConCoction from March 10 to March 12, 2017, at the Sheraton Cleveland Airport 5300 Riverside Drive, Cleveland, OH 44135. I will volunteer for 12 hours at the event. Role unknown at this time.
