In the first three months
of 2023, I posted the stories “Going in a New Direction,” “Which is Worse?” “A Rising Tide,” and “We Might be in Trouble.” I also reposted the stories “You Can Do Better” and “Puppy Wuppy.” These were posted on my blogs, or other
sites. But in an attempt to get more
visits to my website, I started posting a Monthly Story there. These were “Resolved,” “Long Shot,” and “Work Smarter.”
“Work Smarter” may be a
milestone. Years ago, when I first
started submitting stories, I kept track of the submissions in a notebook. At some point, I entered it all into an Excel
Spreadsheet that I’ve been updating for the past, fifteen or twenty years. This “Submissions” list contains all the stories
I’ve submitted to magazines, whether rejected or accepted, as well as all the
stories I’ve self-published on blogs or in ebooks, as well as any story I’ve
reposted. But a few years ago, I figured
it would be good to have a list of just stories that have been published. In theory, it should have been easy to just
cut out all the rejected or reposted stories, but somewhere along the way I
goofed. And it’s not a simple goof. Like, story 100 matches in both lists, but
150 in one is 155 in the other, while 200 in one is 199 in the other. If I had the energy and the time to go
through and verify all the dates and everything, I’d … probably be better off putting
that energy and time into actual writing.
Regardless, according to the “Submissions” list, “Work Smarter” is my
600th published story. By the
“Published” list, it’s 598. So I’m in
that general area.
Besides stories, I also
published two haiku this quarter. The
first was on my Project Mushroom profile, while the second was on my regular
Mastodon profile.
In my last Newsletter, I wrote
about my Free Story Idea series of blogs.
This quarter I’ve added Lost Wallet, one For Black History Month, and The Chronicles of Alif. I’ve also continued
posting some #RandomStoryIdeas on my Mastodon profile.
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In March I started a new
blog, Thompson’s Gardens. The hope
eventually is for it to track how much food our farm and garden produces in one
year. This year, and maybe next, will
just be spent trying to figure out all the details to do that in a way that’s
coherent. If that sounds interesting,
check it out. Although, there’s no way
to tell when there will be a lot of content there.
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For some good writing
news, I have finally finished the first draft of The Uncapped Pen. My current plan is to self-publish it
sometime in May. We’ll have to see if I
can meet that.
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