Loose Change

March NoWriMo 2010

Some months are busier than others.  For me, November and December are particularly busy, so I have been unable to sink my teeth into NaNoWriMo, where lots of insane writers try to write a novel in a month.  Many even succeed.  My hat is off to them.

Here at Writing.com, opto has an alternative which has run for a few years.  It is Invalid Item , and in spite of the name, the goal is a bit more flexible.  There is all the mutual support and excitement of NaNoWriMo, but people get to pick their goals, writing, rewriting, working on multiple pieces, etc.  I am committing to 35K words, which is a bit more realistic than 50K for me given my writing speed.  My plan is to add 20K words to my first novel, and also write three 5K+ anthology stories.  If you are interested, come join in the fun and set your goal.


Current status: 56 items in 61 submissions. Two new markets attempted, Tin House and San Pedro River Review.  One market reattempted, six little things.  (A few eagle-eyed folks might notice that my total submissions number has dropped from a high of 75 down to 61.  This does not reflect my writing less, but my writing more and longer short stories.  There is also a gradually diminishing supply of poems I have out that have not yet been accepted, as poems are getting accepted faster than they are getting written.  The same cannot be said of stories, as I have several in some stage of pre-submission.)