So I’m climbing out of the depression, although not quite as fast as I’d like. Most of my writing this month has been on the working on the new story, which I have managed to finish the rewrite on which seems to have expanded the story by a bit over 10%.
I only had two poems left in submission, so I went ahead and launched my annual poetry submit-a-palooza. The thing that usually makes this a bit of a pain is that I need to combine single-poem documents into multiple-poem documents, but different publications want differing numbers of poems and a poem might be inappropriate for them or already rejected by them. I ended up writing a little MacOS helper that automates this so I can select a group of poems, then ctrl-click on them, and select combine word documents from quick actions and boom, it combines them (in a subdirectory) and opens the file¹ and I’m good to go. In the process, I discovered six publications on my list have started charging for all submissions and another five were verifiably defunct.
And since I like charts and graphs, I made a nice pie chart for you of how my efforts varied over the month:
- I added this for two reasons: first, the script did not like two of my poem files, one with a footnote, the other with some Greek text, second, sometimes I needed to make some edits to the file before submitting like removing my name, or setting format to the specifications of the publication.
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