Four submissions sent out for a sum total of…four stories submitted. The sum total of my finished works. Two thoughts came to me after I finished sending everything out.
1. Sending 10,000 words into the space between acceptance and rejection is a really nice feeling.
2. If, hope beyond hope, they all get accepted, I would make enough to cover my monthly car payment.
Now, it does need to be said that I’m not really in this for the money. There are far easier ways to make an extra buck than to open a vein over the keyboard. However, my subconscious is a tricky little beast and it is absolutely enamored by the act of attaching my writing goals to more concrete goals.
So the goal is to treat my writing like a side job. Which means every month submitting around 10k words worth of story, or enough to pay a big bill once you figure out the cents per word of the market.
The side effect is that hopefully I get more stories finished, instead of letting the languish while I polish them to a highly edited sheen.
