This is my Writing Progress Report March 2025.
On February 28th we went to the Glass Asylum in Chagrin Falls for a birthday celebration. Everyone had fun eating, talking, and making glass.
Writing Progress from February 2025.
I wrote four blog posts for my website, garydavidgillen.com. One of the posts was my writing progress report for February 2025, which I linked below.
In February 2025, I presented the short story “We Sell All Potions Greenhouse” to the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call.
Writing Progress from February 2025 Continued
I made five posts on my Goodreads account in February 2025.
In the past, I sent the stories; Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, and Grognard to magazines.
The seven Flash Fiction Stories I sent out in 2020 and 2021 were Space-Dog Confession, Sleeping Sickness, Caliburnus, Popular Mechanics Re-brewed, Wormhole Generator, Runs with Scissors, and Principled Rogue.
Magazine submissions for 2021 were 4 unique stories submitted 4 times, with 0 accepted, 0 pending, and 4 rejections. No submissions for 2022. None for 2023. None for 2024.
Events from February 2025.
The next conferences I intend to attend are Concoction Cleveland and the Western Reserve Writer’s Conference in March, which are detailed in the planned events section.
Writing Goals for March 2025.
In March 2025, I plan to write four blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my Writing Progress Report for March 2025.
I plan to work on a story for the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop on a Zoom call in March 2025.
Eventually, I plan to work on third draft edits for Assassin in New Marl City using comments from the Novel Writing Workshop at Parma, Ohio. I plan to split Chapter 1 into two chapters and add a scene to the new Chapter 1.
Submit the stories Space-Dog Confession, Four Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, LARP Film Noir, Sleeping Sickness, Popular Mechanics Re-brewed, and Caliburnus. to other short fiction magazines.
Polish and send the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, I Shall Not Return, Prisoner of Tarnal, and Kay-Eye for submission to short fiction magazines.
In March 2025, I plan to make five posts on my Goodreads account.
Planned Events for March 2025.
The next conference I plan to attend is the Cleveland Concoction, from March 7, 2025, to March 9, 2025. They will hold the conference at the Bertram Inn and Conference Center at 600 North Aurora Road, Aurora, Ohio.
This is a link to the Cleveland Concoction website.
http://www.clevelandconcoction.org/
Another event I plan to attend is the Western Reserve Writers Conference at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Lyndhurst, Ohio on March 22, 2025.
This is a link to the Cuyahoga County Library website.
https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org
