On Writing

 Since the beginning of the year, I have:

 

-sent out a story to five different markets

-critiqued one short story and one full length novel

-written a 1,700 word story

-found two reliable (and very awesome) beta readers and gotten feedback on five stories

-written 7,000 words of another story (still working on it)

-plotted most of a novella

Of course, the story in progress (a steampunk fairy tale involving mechanical ravens) is probably going to be an uncomfortable length to submit anywhere, and the novella idea is fabulous but there are so few markets for novellas.

Still, I'm very happy that I've gotten so much done (not as much as I would like, but it never is).