Well done everyone! I'm so slow compared to you!
Started a flash yesterday and finished draft zero today. It's way over at 1k, so it'll need trimming. Also, it's really not great lol. I have no idea what that is, but I'll try working on it--with not much hope, because it's such a silly little thing and absolutely not what I usually write. That's all the fun of being a pantser...
Apart from this, I'm doing well on submissions. 8 stories submitted so far, and 1 surprise acceptance.
2023 - V40 - Q4 HM
2024 - V41 - Q2 HM - Q3 HM - Q4 HM
1221 today for a total of 11746
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Well done everyone! I'm so slow compared to you!
Started a flash yesterday and finished draft zero today. It's way over at 1k, so it'll need trimming. Also, it's really not great lol. I have no idea what that is, but I'll try working on it--with not much hope, because it's such a silly little thing and absolutely not what I usually write. That's all the fun of being a pantser...
Apart from this, I'm doing well on submissions. 8 stories submitted so far, and 1 surprise acceptance.
8 stories submitted is doing well for this early in the year - and congrats on the surprise acceptance! 
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
I feel like I have been quite proactive this year and I want to maintain it, so posting seems like a good way to put lines in the sand and say "yeah, this is what I'm doing". So far in 2025:
- I've submitted three stories,
- Had my first rejection, and
- Bought a domain name and settled on a hosting provider.
For the rest of this month I want to keep working on my novel (not broke 1,000 words yet this month), write a shorter form story (probably flash and submit that), and design my website so it goes live.
3rd Place Q3 Vol 41
Submission record: R x 2 / HM x 7 / SHM x 2 / W x 1
Stories published in Daily Science Fiction, Every Day Fiction, 365tomorrows, and Gwyllion Magazine.
I feel like I have been quite proactive this year and I want to maintain it, so posting seems like a good way to put lines in the sand and say "yeah, this is what I'm doing". So far in 2025:
- I've submitted three stories,
- Had my first rejection, and
- Bought a domain name and settled on a hosting provider.
For the rest of this month I want to keep working on my novel (not broke 1,000 words yet this month), write a shorter form story (probably flash and submit that), and design my website so it goes live.
Yay @joel-c-scoberg that's exactly what this thread is for - spurring ourselves on by reporting, goal-ing (is that a verb 😉 ) and supporting 
congrats on the 3 subs! Sorry about the rejection. If it's any comfort I'm already at 8 😥 😥
Looking forward to seeing this web page! I read early on that having one if agents were interested in you was a good thing so I probably made mine way *too* early
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
oh right, and forgot to post my own total for yesterday: 1756 words.
At work today so not anticipating much writing, but I'll still be thinking about my pieces so when I *do* finally sit down....
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
Nothing yesterday or today, though I did submit a short story today.
My brain is not in it but I'll catch up, hopefully.
R:6 RWC:1 HM:9 SHM:3
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Yesterday only wrote 39 words, but it was a poem and 39 words of poetry is heavy lifting for me 🤣
What took most of the time yesterday though was reading/beta-reading and commenting on (12) other people's stories - its a thing I'm doing for January
Still working on todays writing goals tho!
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
Only 710 words yesterday, but hey, thats still more than the day before 😆
Today is my intense work day at my regular job so I'm expecting a zero 🙁
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
just 373 mostly lousy words today, but I did also work a 14 hour day at the dayjob, so I forgive myself 😉
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
Wish I had more to add. Though I'll say I aim to edit for one hour a day. So far so good.
I'm now up to page 525 in my read-through.
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Ok, I've had a couple of ropey days but managed 1280 today for a total of 13026. I will catch up.
R:6 RWC:1 HM:9 SHM:3
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Wish I had more to add. Though I'll say I aim to edit for one hour a day. So far so good.
I'm now up to page 525 in my read-through.
thats awesome @tj_knight !
Don't think it matters whether we use words written, pages edited, or time spent, as long as the metric is meaningful to us personally and the outcome to the project
I personally only eeked out 1001 words today and I know most of them were bad. At this point I'm just trying to finish the story and hoping in edit I can rescue the prose from awful to acceptable, but I just can't stare at an unfinished project anymore!
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
I'm on new blood pressure tablets and the doc warned me they might make me a little light headed. Was he right? Yes he was.
Still, 1544 today for a total of 14570 so far. I am slowly catching up.
R:6 RWC:1 HM:9 SHM:3
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@pdblake just think how many words you would have had if you hadnt been on new blood pressure meds. Dang that doctor! 😆
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
Yesterday was rough. Wrote a story draft at 2800 words, which sounds great, until you know the word limit for this piece was 750 words, so then I had to cut over 2000 words back out , keeping the plot somewhat intact (some scenes were deleted), and that was brutal
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
Nothing yesterday but 1335 today for a total of 15905.
R:6 RWC:1 HM:9 SHM:3
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Small Gods and Little Demons - Parsec Issue #10
slow day. worked on the Q2 just a little. Did some tidy up on a flash piece. Mainly spent time writing a new blog entry.
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
1664 today for a total of 17569.
R:6 RWC:1 HM:9 SHM:3
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Small Gods and Little Demons - Parsec Issue #10
its not been a fiction heavy day but I have written 1518 words in blog posts and a pitch for a science-fact article to a magazine. I've honestly had more success with those than fiction, but we'll see if that pans out 
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
ps oh, and I slush read and wrote comments on a lot of other people's pieces too!
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
oh, so in the quickest turn around of the century - update to come in the success thread I guess
And today was 400 words of fiction and 1036 of non-fiction
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: P Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 15 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
Nothing yesterday, but 1636 today for a total of 19205.
2.8k behind and catching up steadily.
R:6 RWC:1 HM:9 SHM:3
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