1 story, 3 outlines

My aim was to do four outlines, one per week, and turn one of them into a full fledged story. I did much better than this. I did four outlines, turned two into prose rough drafts, turned one into a comic script submission to 2000 AD, and another one into a short film script. Above and beyond, right?

But no matter how much I worked on my two prose pieces, they still aren't submission ready yet. In fact, today I decided I'll likely submit an older story to Writers of the Future on Monday because I know I won't be satisfied with the one I'm working on before the end of the month. And I'm not stuck. I'm just slow.

I don't know how I'm going to be able to have something ready every week to be critiqued at Clarion. Sure, I can do a really rough draft in five days but that's not much better than a glorified outline; certainly not something I'm ready to show other people. I'll keep at it, I guess. And I'll keep working on the rough drafts I've got. Maybe prose just isn't my medium and it would be good to figure that out before I spend another eight years working at it.

350 wpm reading speed

I think I'm at 350wpm, though I'm too brain fried right now to measure. And I read half a dozen books this past month, including Nancy Kress's Beggars in Span, making it so I've now read at least one book or at least a dozen short stories/essays by each of the six Clarion instructors.

Ideabox Templates Implemented

I've focused less on this as I have getting scrap paper sorted (next month's task). So I've made decent progress on that, but I've still a long way to go.



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