Wednesday's Writing Update

In the previous week, my flash fiction piece for Friday was “Fortune’s Daughter.” You can read it here. I posted the first part of our three-part story on Raven and the Writing Desk. You can read “Equal Opportunity” here. It’s also time for the second challenge in the Second Writers Platform-Building Crusade. Read “Freedom” here. If you have a moment to check out the other entries, do so. They’re great.

I now have over 400 Twitter followers and am closing in to 200 blog followers. I’m overwhelmed by it and very thankful.

I’m still slowly working my way through writing blog posts, flash fiction, and short stories. I don’t believe I’ll finish all of them before March 31^st, but the more I get done means the less I’ll have to do in April and May. I must work on rewriting Virtuoso. I really must. If I don’t get back to it soon, I’m afraid I’ll put it away forever, and I don’t want to do that.

I’m about halfway finished writing “Ereshkigal’s Revenge.” I planned to write one more short story until I found out about two other anthologies. *sighs* Why must you tempt me so, short stories? Why? So, I need to write my Greek myth revisited one, something about Japan for Stories for Sendai and something for Sword & Sorceress XXVI. In other words, my short story writing might branch over a little bit into April but hopefully not too much.

I’m also critiquing 30 pages a day for PWP in my new assignment.

So these are my updates. What does everyone else have going on?

Flash Fiction and Six Months Update

Tomorrow will include my first Flash Fiction Fridays, and I wanted to take a moment to comment upon flash fiction. According to Wikipedia, flash fiction is fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as 300, while others consider stories as long as 1000 words to be flash fiction. I will be writing stories in any genre I so chose, and my goal is stories of 500 words or less. If the story is a little over, then I won't worry, but I am going to make certain not to have anything over 1,000 words. Flash fiction stories will be announced with this picture I made: 

 I thought the Flash was highly appropriate. *grins* So, my first flash fiction piece will be up tomorrow.


Also, it's hard to believe that six months have passed in 2010. I wanted to take a moment to reflect upon my writing statistics from January 2010-June 2010.

In the past six months:

Submissions: 20

Rejections: 14

Acceptances: 4

Stories currently in Submission World: 4

Words Written: 42,885

It's not bad for the past sixth months, and I was impressed by my word count because I thought it was a lot less, since I haven't been writing much lately.

For the next six months, I plan to write more, starting this month. My goal is to write a little every day. Here is my writing schedule:

Mondays - Novel

Tuesdays - Short Story

Wednesdays - Novella

Thursdays and Fridays - Miscellaneous Writing

Saturdays and Sundays - Editing

Of course, this schedule is subject to change, particularly in November where writing will just include NaNoWriMo 2010, where I will be writing Sarah's Nightmare, a thriller/horror novel.

For this month, I have at least three short stories planned to write and a few flash fiction pieces.

In other words, I better get writing!