Summing up Camp NaNo July 2018

This month I decided to set my official goal at 50,000 words, reaching it by writing various different short stories. Here’s how I got on!

Day 01 – Daily word count 4724, total word count 4724.
Day 02 – Daily word count 2120, total word count 6844.
Day 03 – Daily word count 2668, total word count 9512.
Day 04 – Daily word count 3850, total word count 13362.
Day 05 – Daily word count 5301, total word count 18663.
Day 06 – Daily word count 3253, total word count 21916.
Day 07 – Daily word count 4247, total word count 26163. Broke halfway point!
Day 08 – Daily word count 2020, total word count 28183.
Day 09 – Daily word count 1947, total word count 30130.
Day 10 – Daily word count 2670, total word count 32800.
Day 11 – Daily word count 4542, total word count 37342. Added 84 words to day 6 story.Total=37426 words.
Day 12 – Daily word count 2688, total word count 40114.
Day 13 – Daily word count 4468, total word count 44582. Added 79 words to yesterdays count.
Day 14 – Daily word count 1286, total word count 45868.
Day 15 – Daily word count 2058, total word count 47926.
Day 16 – Daily word count 3330, total word count 51256. Win on day 16!
Day 17 – Daily word count 1818, total word count 53074. Unofficial new target now 60,000 words.
Day 18 – Daily word count 1022, total word count 54096. 1 like from #Pit2Pub
Day 19 – Daily word count 1208, total word count 55384.
Day 20 – Daily word count 1600, total word count 56984. Win claimed!
Day 21 – Daily word count 1363, total word count 58347.
Day 22 – Daily word count 1498, total word count 59845.
Day 23 – Daily word count 712, total word count 60557. Unofficial goal reached!
Day 24 – Daily word count 1378, total word count 61935.

Claimed end of camp on day 25, no writing took place that day.

I wrote and completed 27 new stories. I’d stand by all bar 3 of them to be saleable.

I managed to write something every day, despite this being the hottest July on record. One of my novels is currently being read by a publisher.

I did okay this month.

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What’s currently in submission in 2018 #6

As the last one was in early June I thought I’d update you.

I’d like to take a moment to apologise for being unable to offer updates over the last few months. I made a sale in mid April, then out of respect to my publisher I waited until I was given official permission to announce the sale before I carried on with the out in submission list. As I announce every submission and rejection, it would have been the job of mere moments to work out which story had sold.

What’s currently out in submission?

Acceptances: 0.
Rejections:- Again, too many to count.
Publications:- Nothing new this month.
Withdrawals:- None this month

37 stories now out there.

So This Was June…

We’ve already reached the end of the sixth month of 2018.

So what’s happened so far?

SALES:- I’ve made 3 sales so far, to Third Flatiron; “The Doomsday Machine Retires” for their Monstrosities anthology, to WolfSinger Publications; “Muse” for their Cat Tails anthology and finally to Mythic Magazine; “Not According To Design”.

I’m sorry it’s taken so long to be able to announce that, I had to respect my publisher and wait until he said it was okay.

SUBMISSIONS:- I’ve already submitted 156 stories this year.

REJECTIONS:- I’ve had 137 rejections so far.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS:- I’ve had word back about “Uncle Ping’s Evening Farewell” from Insignia. The publisher has sent out proofs, I’ve already sent mine back. She’s hoping to gear up to publication any day soon. Insignia Volume 5 will be sold through Smashwords.

“Not According To Design” will appear in issue #7 of Mythic Magazine, there’s no official date on that yet. I’ll update you as soon as I hear anything.

My two latest credits will go up onto ISFDB once the titles are released. Both publishers have previous entries so I’ll be able to add those on.

My total of new stories written this year so far is now 41.

I’m hoping to get as many subs out as possible this month and I’m hoping to get a few more answers back before the end of the month too. Fingers crossed for more sales.