Wednesday, April 1, 2009

EOM Review

In a month where I notched up another year gone, I did okay on the writing front.

I was chuffed to receive The Scribbler Award - I don't get many awards so I'm milking this for all it's worth.

I managed a below-par 8585 new words on Newland which also gained a new name - A Kookaburra's Laugh.

I wrote one new short which I promptly turned into a screen play script and submitted as an assignment.

Wamphyri was rejected and subsequently resent out. I also discovered Dark Rose was languishing at a failed market and so resubbed her as well to Yellow Mama who graciously offered her a home at which to spend Halloween.

Winged Shepherd of Innocence was published at Fear & Trembling Magazine.

I finished revising and submitted Dreaming, which was immediately short listed by the editor.

I completed and submitted five assignments. I received three of these back - all have gained a B grade pass.

I have read RealmShift & MageSign by Alan Baxter. I have also posted a review of the first and will do the review for the second shortly.

I have also read and reviewed Tainted: Tales of the Supernatural, edited by Aaron Polson, and Phantasy Moste Grotesk by Felicity Dowker.

I also promised myself I'd try to blog a little less to allow for more writing time. Last month I blogged 43 separate times and accomplished 15,000 or so words on my manuscript, three short stories and a couple of assignments. I also managed to read a bit. This month I've done about half the words on the manuscript, only one short story, and 5 assignments - but only 40 posts on the blog. So much for that theory.

On to April where I fully expect to get even less done. Only 30 days in the month and 5 or 6 of them will be off limits for writing due to being away on holiday. The last week of the month could be a total write off as well. May could be worse - more on that as it approaches.

Here's hoping you had a better month and have better times to look forward to.

5 comments:

  1. Sounds like you had a pretty decent month, got a few acceptances and some words down.

    Though I find blogging spurs on writing, as I've gotten more ideas this past month and blogged more, but the ideas could also be from the increase in reading.

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  2. Reading does it for me - and watching lots of movies. Glad to hear you had a good month as well.

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  3. A lovely month, but not more productive. I set it aside to work on a novel and, well, I'm almost laughing as I type this so you can guess how it went!

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  4. Strange how we all judge prgress through a month. Personally I think my month was okay, but nothing great - just a continuation of the process.

    Nat - I'm sure you managed to get things done, maybe not on the novel or not so much on the novel, but you still had plenty of things to woot about.

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