abracanabra | Entries tagged with platinadar

06/14/10, Monday. Overslept. And then dealing with email ate the rest of the time. Argh.
* Posted writing log.
* Updated market list from Dark Markets feed.
* Updated shared documents for Platinadar and finally (!) emailed off latest Vespa letter.
* Read and updated market list from Writers Digest, 3 Duotrope Digest, and Critters newsletters and Ralan online since I didn't get the newsletter this month. Hrm.
* Submitted "The Haunts of Hill Crossing" to Daily Science Fiction.
* How to write Twitter fiction: http://nelilly.greententacles.com/twitter-fiction-is-a-joke/

05/12/10, Wednesday
* Finished Critters critique and began MinnSpec one.
* Prepped Vicesteed ch. 31 for edits.
* Began making editing changes on Vicesteed ch. 30.
* Took down "Salvaging Scottwell" from Bookrix. I have learned a very valuable lesson, and that lesson is that I really don't have time to do a popularity-based writing contest properly. I just don't, and I shouldn't try.
* Worked on brainstorming "Remediation Town," the desertification-and-algal-bloom story. Not done yet. Need good reasons a bandit chief *wouldn't* want a town to prey on.
* Read Critters newsletter.

05/11/10, Tuesday, worked full-time and then had bridge night. But had a goodly amount of downtime at work.
* Finished redmarking Vicesteed ch. 30.
* Finished writing this Platinadar letter and typed it up. Just need to clean up my misc. notes and it's good to go.

05/10/10, Monday
* Processed Andromeda Inflight Magazine's form letter rejection of "Demons of Disease."
* Worked on redmarking Vicesteed ch. 30.

05/09/10, Sunday
* Attended CoyoteCon online panels.
* Read Duotrope, FFWSmallMarkets, and Ralan newsletters and updated markets from them.
* Told Critters about sale/pub of "The Radiator Burped" and "These Things Take Time."
* Revised the "to do once published/accepted" list.

05/087/10, Saturday
* Attended Coyote Con online panels.
* Read FundsforWriters and FFWSmallMarkets newsletters.
* Posted writing log, freewriting.
* Processed publishing contract for "The Radiator Burped" reprint in Northern Lights: A MinnSpec Anthology.
* Posted about publication of "A fob chain went under his vest, between ribs..." to Fb, LJ, Twitter,

05/07/10, Friday, worked full-time, the ass shift (beginning at 6:30 AM)
* Posted writing log, penthius freewriting
* Wrote 2 1/2 pgs. on Platinadar.
* Attended Coyote Con panels online.

05/04/10, Tuesday
* Posted writing log,

penthius freewriting.
* Worked on Critters critique.
* Wrote 2 pages on Platinadar (not being up to riding my bike just yet helps with this).
* Submitted "Warmth in the Cold Time" to Flash Fiction Online.
* Updated market list from Ralan newsletter through "Pay" markets.

05/03/10, Monday
* Posted writing log, freewriting.
* Prepped Critters mss for critting.
* Submitted "Demons of Disease" to Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (still one of the best SF magazine titles ever).
* Submitted "The Miracle Material" to Zoetrope: All-Story.
* Wrote one page longhand on Platinadar.

(And yes, I totally just wrote a list of all the things I needed to catch up on and then started rolling a D6 to decide what to do next. I should really keep that D6, too, as it tended to roll high. Disproportionate number of sixes [which meant non-writing paperwork, worse luck].)

You know, a long rambling post where I write about where I'm at and what I'm doing and all the other things I think friends should know about each other but all too often don't these days. I encourage you to do one of these posts, too! I miss knowing these things about my friends (Twitter and Facebook have added a lot of little detailed information, but I think they've taken away some of the big picture).

( Read more... )

02/09/10, Tuesday, worked a full day, but with downtime.
* Finished writing Vespa's Letter to Platinadar, typed up during work downtime, and sent on its merry way.

02/08/10, Monday
* Finished writing "Ekaterina and the Firebird." Felt all accomplished because I'd hit the ending and all that--and then realized I had to go back to the beginning and fill in transitions and research [brackets]. Not done yet! Alas, alack!
* Began writing "Letter to Platinadar" on the bus.

02/07/10, Sunday
* Updated market list from link submitted.
* Processed payment for "Salvaging Scottwell" and "The Key to His Heart." Go go gadget spreadsheets!
* Read Writer's Digest, Publishers Lunch, WritersWeekly, WritersMarket, WritingWorld, FundsforWriters, WritersMarket, Duotrope, Ralan, and FFWSmallMarkets newsletters and updated markets from them.
* Flow: http://blog.writersdigest.com/mfaconfidential/On+Words+Flowing+And+Why+Its+Worth+It.aspx
* Submitted "The Perfect Costume" to Extreme Creatures Anthology for reprint.
* Submitted "Good Help is Hard to Find" to GUD.
* Submitted "Demons of Disease" to Arkham Tales--and whoa! realized it was my 108th story submission since I started using my own spreadsheet to track.
* Finished typing up what has been written longhand of "Ekaterina and the Fire Bird" (4,463 words)

02/06/10, Saturday, Phil's game all p.m., then friends birthday dinner.
* Posted writing log, freewriting, NanoWri
* Typed up almost all the rest of "Ekaterina."

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