Progress Report – Second Quarter 2022
How was second quarter 2022 for writing? So I spent second quarter 2022 overhauling this website. This included creating basic landing pages for each of the universes I am writing in. I’m happy with how they’re turning out. But of course that’s the sort of thing that can easily become a perpetual work in progress.
The idea behind these pages is to create a central hub for universes like for the Obolonks or Enigmans. And then anything else I write about them will feed off those pages and feed back into them.
And I was looking for a good writing group that spoke to me. I also submitted to one place and edited Mettle, Gentrification, The Obolonk Murders, and The Polymer Beat.
Second Quarter 2022 Posted Works
First of all, I worked a little on new short stories. I also spent a lot of my time working to get inspired. So, I would think about plot bunnies.
Then on Wattpad I posted on the WattNaNo profile and the Star Trek Fans profile, and nowhere else.
Milestones
Also, I have written over two and a half million words (fan fiction and wholly original fiction combined). So right now my stats on Wattpad for wholly original works are as follows:
- Dinosaurs – 40+ reads, 9+ comments
- How to NaNoWriMo – 25,199+ reads, 320+ comments
- My Favorite Things (like kibble) – 983 reads, 133 comments
- Revved Up – 59,415+ reads, 530+ comments
- Side By Side – 17 reads, 1 comments
- Social Media Guide for Wattpad – 15,384+ reads, 591+ comments
- The Canadian Caper – 502 reads, 37 comments
- The Dish – 250 reads, 24 comments
- There is a Road – 189 reads, 28 comments
- WattNaNo’s Top Picks 2018 – 1,947+ reads, 45+ comments
- WattNaNo’s Top Picks 2019 – 1,814+ reads, 10+ comments
- What Now? – 2,661+ reads, 104+ comments
More Published Works
Also, I am amassing quite the collection of published works!
Untrustworthy, which is my first published novel. So yay!
A True Believer in Skepticism, published in Mythic Magazine.
Almost Shipwrecked, a story in the January 2019 edition of Empyreome.
Canaries, a short story in the March 29, 2019, edition of Theme of Absence.
Complications, a story in the Queer Sci Fi Discovery anthology. So this is an anthology where the proceeds went to supporting the QSF website.
Cynthia and Wilder Bloom, stories in the Longest Night Watch II anthology.
Props, a story in the Longest Night Watch I anthology. So this is an anthology where the proceeds go to Alzheimer’s research.
Surprises, a story in Book One of the 42 and Beyond Anthology set.
The Boy in the Band, a story in the Pride Park anthology. So this is an anthology where the proceeds go to the Trevor Project.
The Interview, the featured story in the December 14, 2018 edition of Theme of Absence. So they even interviewed me!
The Last Patient, a story in the Stardust, Always anthology. This was an anthology where the proceeds go to cancer research.
The Resurrection of Ditte, a story in the Unrealpolitik anthology.
This is My Child, a short story published in the April 8, 2019 edition of Asymmetry Fiction.
Three Minutes Back in Time, a short story published in Mythic Magazine.
Killing Us Softly, a short story published in Corner Bar Magazine.
Darkness into Light, a short story published in Corner Bar Magazine.
WIP Corner
So my current WIPs are as follows:
The Obolonk Murders Trilogy – so this one is all about a tripartite society. But who’s killing the aliens?
The Enigman Cave – can we find life on another planet and not screw it up? You know, like we do everything else?
The Real Hub of the Universe Trilogy – so the aliens who live among us in the 1870s and 1880s are at war. But why is that?
Mettle – so it’s all about how society goes to hell in a hand basket when the metals of the periodic table start to disappear. But then what?
Time Addicts – No One is Safe – so this one is all about what happens in the future when time travel becomes possible via narcotic.
Time Addicts – Nothing is Permanent – this is the second in this trilogy. What happens when time is tampered with and manipulated in all sorts of ways? It’s the ultimate in gaslighting, for one thing.
Time Addicts – Everything is Up For Grabs – this is the third in this trilogy. When time is bent and shaped like a wire hanger or a lump of clay, Josie James is thrown around in just so much temporal turbulence. She’s the only one who remembers how things were before—or is she? Can she put any of it back before even she forgets the oldest timelines?
Prep Work
So currently, my intention, for this year’s NaNoWriMo, is that I am writing the third trilogy in the Time Addicts/Obolonks universe. But I need to iron out the plot! So a lot of this year has been spent on that. I have no name for this one yet.
Second Quarter 2022 Queries and Submissions
So here’s how that’s been going during second quarter 2022.
In Progress
As of Second Quarter 2022, nothing is still in the running for publishing.
All Other Statuses
So be sure to see the Stats section for some details on any query statuses for Second Quarter 2022 which were not in progress.
Stats
So in 2018, my querying stats were:
- 68 submissions of 19 stories
- Acceptances: 4, 5.88%
- In Progress-Under Consideration: 3, 4.41% (so these don’t seem to have panned out)
- In Progress: 10, 14.71%
- Rejected-Personal: 14, 20.59%
- Rejected-Form: 24, 35.29%
- Ghosted: 13 (so these were submissions where I never found out what happened), 19.12%
So in 2019 my querying stats were:
- 23 submissions of 11 stories (so 6 submissions carry over from 2018)
- Acceptances: 4, 17.39%
- In Progress: 11 (so this includes 2 holdovers from 2018), 47.83%
- Rejected-Personal: 4, 17.39%
- Rejected-Form: 3, 13.04%
- Ghosted: 1 (so these are submissions where I never found out what happened), 4.35%
2020 Stats
So in 2020 my querying stats were:
- 37 submissions of 12 stories (so 9 submissions carried over from 2019)
- Acceptances: 3, 8.11%
- In Progress: 7, 18.92%
- Rejected-Personal: 12, 32.43%
- Rejected-Form: 4, 10.81%
- Ghosted: 11 (so these are submissions where I never found out what happened), 29.73%
2021 Stats
So in 2021 my querying stats were:
- 5+ submissions of 5+ stories (so 5 submissions carried over from 2020)
- Acceptances: 0, 0%
- Ghosted: 5 (so these are submissions where I never found out what happened), 100%
2022 Stats
So in 2022 my querying stats are:
- 6+ submissions of 65+ stories (so 5 submissions carry over from 2020 and 2021)
- Acceptances: 0%
- Rejected-Form: 1, 16.67%
- Ghosted: 5 (so these are submissions where I never found out what happened), 83.33%
Not too terribly encouraging.
This Quarter’s Productivity Killers
So it’s work, what else? But there’s another issue. I am working on getting back into a writing group. Before the second quarter 2022 started, it seemed like my group would be disbanding. Which makes me sad. Why, oh why, can’t I find a group that I like, which works for me? But … I may have found someone … Stay tuned.
Other second quarters, like in 2020 and 2021, had more querying. Ah, well.
First quarter 2022, though, had very little. And so it goes.