Writing Progress Report September 2017
This is my Writing Progress Report September 2017.
At the park for a Labor Day picnic.
Writing Progress from August 2017
I wrote seven blog posts for garydavidgillen.com including my writing progress report for August 2017 linked below.
Finished Chapter 14 of Assassin in New Marl City
Wrote Chapter 22 of Assassin in New Marl City
Started Chapter 27 of Assassin in New Marl City
The stories 4 Humours, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, and LARP Film Noir have been submitted to magazines.
Started using the program Grammarly to check the grammar of my stories.
Statistics of magazine submissions since December 2016 are; 4 different stories submitted a total of 13 times with 0 accepted, 3 pending, and 10 rejections.
Events from August 2017
Attended the Confluence Conference on August 5, 2017, at the Airport Sheraton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The link to the Confluence website.
http://parsec-sff.org/confluence/
Writing Goals for September 2017
Continue to work on An Assassin in New Marl City. I want to expand the novel from 20 chapters to 36 chapters (100000 words total). Expand Chapter 27, expand Chapter 28, write Chapter 10 and write Chapter 17 of the novel this month.
Type the Edits for Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, and 26 of Assassin in New Marl City.
Polish and submit the stories White Bracer, Mage Squad, Time Traveller One, Prisoner of Tarnal, Kay-Eye, and Get to the Point for submission to short fiction magazines.
Submit 4 Humors, Space Station Sunyata, Grognard, and LARP Film Noir to other short fiction magazines.
Planned Events for September 2017
Attend the Western Reserve Writers Conference on September 23, 2017, at the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Lyndhurst, Ohio
This is the link to the Cuyahoga County Library.
https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/
This is the link to the writer’s center at the library branch.
https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Services/William-N-Skirball-Writers-Center.aspx
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 called Scrivener.
Work on completing a Query letter to use to find an agent for Assassin in New Marl.