So when I got my acceptance today from Cyber Age Adventures, a professional-paying electronic market (and one I cracked on the first try, thank you very much), I was naturally pleased to end on this note. This is my second pro fiction sale (where "pro" means 3 cents a word or better) and it was the first place I sent the story--it just seemed right.

I suppose I should reveal how many rejections I've recieved in the process of these 50 sales. The last I counted I was over 120, and I imagine it amounts to almost 200 by now if I were to collect the more recent ones and include those publications that folded or just plain failed to respond after literally years of querying about the status of my submissions.

I'll be collecting the numbers for my own reference--and, yeah, I'll post them here--by the end of the year, but, more importantly, I'm now going to switch gears from writing for submission and publication to writing for development. See, I'm still at the stage where what I wrote a few months ago (which seemed so fresh at the time) now seems stale and embarrassing. So, while I'll still be sending out work on occasion, I don't plan on hitting the markets quite so hard. Not that I've been hitting the markets with much effort. Work and personal life have takent their toll.

The goal through 2000 was 50 sales. Accomplished!

2001 is the year of a million words. I plan on writing an average of 2740 words per day. I hope to produce some good work on the way, but I won't be fooling myself; this is just part of the journey.

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