Wednesday's Writing Update: May Stats, June goals, and an acceptance

First off, please welcome Raquel Byrnes to the blog. Her guest post about the inspiration of her novel Purple Knot is here.

Yesterday marked the end of May, and thus I now have May's stats.

Submissions: 3
Rejections: 4
Acceptances: 1
Words Written: 3273

My word count for May was very, very bad. Ugh. I need to find a way to fix it this month.

And look, I have an acceptance. I'm very proud of this acceptance. My story "Folding Hope" will be published in Stories for Sendai. This is a charity anthology geared toward raising money for Japan. I have posts planned that are related to the anthology, including possibly my first vlog. So be on the look out for that coming later in June.

As for June, I do have some goals. I have a few short stories I would like to write. I need to get back to rewriting Virtuoso and continue with edits. Plus I am going to start keeping track of how many pages I edit a month. It'll give me an idea on what I'm doing on that front.

As for Virtuoso, chapters 1-5 are back from my critique partners. Everyone is loving the story, thinks the pace is good, and has remarked on its professional quality. There are things I need to change/tweak here and there, but so far, so good. I hope to edit chapters 6-10 within the next couple weeks and get them to my CPs and rewrite chapters 11-15. I think the five chapters at a time thing is working pretty well. My goal is to query agents by October, but that means I need to have the rewrite, critiques back, and edits finished by September, so I can do a last proofread/polish.

In other words, I need to get back to writing, rewriting, and editing. *laughs*

So, what news do you have?