Monthly stats for October:

• 10,182 new words of fiction written this month. ¹
   
• 20 first drafts currently in progress (some untouched for a long time)
   
• 3 first drafts currently "ripening" before second draft. ²
   
• 4 second drafts currently in progress
   
• 2 second drafts currently in the hands of "trusted readers."
   
• 4 third drafts currently in progress (again, some untouched for a while).
   
• 0 third drafts currently awaiting polishing.
   
• 0 fourth drafts in currently in progress.
   
• 3 rewrites in progress of stories previously sent out, based on comments from friends. ³
   
• 1 rewrite (at request of editor) currently in progress.
   
• 10 stories currently submitted to markets
   
• 130 words in shortest story currently submitted. ⁴
   
• 8,700 words in longest story currently submitted.
   
• 1 offer of publication received this month.⁵
   
• Longest current wait without response: 134 days.⁶
   

¹ Best I’ve done since Clarion — and, not counting Clarion, the best I’ve done since July of ’08. Pleased.

²If September was Rewrite Month, October was First Draft Month. A 900-word SF story, an 1,800-word political specfic story, a 3,700-word love story, not to mention some twitterfics. Pleased again.

³I showed three of my already-submitted stories to friends from Clarion, and their comments are causing me to do some serious rewrites.

⁴This is a collection of twitterfics.

⁵GUD.

⁶ An anthology.

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