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Year to Date (2001):
Month
# of Words
1998
# of Words
1999
# of Words 2000
# of Words 2001
 
Difference 00/01
January
57,456
45,156
50,837
45,327
-5510
February
32,101
58,143
41,267
36,219
-5048
(-10658)
March
35,494
31,633
31,705
34,937
+3232
 (-7426)
April
38,375
41,585
30,788
35,308
+4520
(-2096)
May
39,988
37,080
40,332
53,526
+13,194
(+11,098)
June
49,999
41,425
41,449
52,178
+10,729
(+23,923)
July
53,892
55,917
67,135
54,324
-12811
(+11,114)
August
35,798
36,709
66,162
58,483
-7679
 (+3435)
September
36,675
74,062
36,049
77,238
+41,189
(+44,624)
October
45,586
 59,824
52,790
100,265
+47,425
 (+92,099)
November
46,052
 50,532
48,067
100,071
+52,004
 (+144,103)
December
67,942
 60,694
57,597
53,906
-3691
(140,412)
Total for year
538,266
 601,842
567,178
701,782
 
 
Material worked on:
SFWA word count lengths
*Novel -- 40,000 words or more
*Novella -- 17,500 - 39,999 words
*Novelette -- 7,500 -17,499 words
*Short Story -- 7,499 words or fewer
Title
Began
Finished
Novel
Novella
Novelette
or
Short Story
New
Rewrite
 
Genre 
# of Words
Devlin's Team # 9: Honor Bound
01/01/01
04/06/01
Novel
1
New
sf
96,025
Paid in Blood and Gold
01/27/01
12/15/01
Novel
2
New
Fantasy
70,126
Legend (Helen) (Sold)
2/23/01
2/23/01
Short Story
1
New
Fantasy
1166
Sanctuary from the Night (Magical Ages)
03/08/01
05/08/01
Short Story
2
New
Fantasy
2266
Jana's War (Sold)
03/10/01
03/10/01
Short Story
3
New
sf
437
Aftermath (Sold)
03/10/01
03/10/01
Short Story
4
New
sf
494
Rebel
05/02/01
05/11/01
Short Story
5
New
sf
6519
Ruins
05/03/01
10/22/01
Novel
3
New
Mystery
66,930
Seri Ember
04/01/01
05/31/01
Novelette
1
New
Fantasy
13,131
Feghoot (The Visitors) (Sold)
05/28/01
05/28/01
Short Story
6
New
sf
687
Sumo and the Stars
05/30/01
05/30/01
Short Story
7
New
sf
2020
The Light and Dark
05/31/01
05/31/01
Short Story
8
New
Fantasy
1100
Singer & St. Jude # 4: Rachel Weeps
6/1/01
6/27/01
Novel
4
New
sf
42,880
While the Gods Sleep #1
6/26/01
12/31/01
Novelette
2
New
Fantasy
8595
If You Dream of Forests Green
7/1/01
7/1/01
Short Story
9
New
Fantasy
5567
Stalker
7/2/01
7/18/01
Short Story
10
New
Fantasy
8553
The Tale of Two Teachers/Editor's Note
7/11/01
Article
1
New
Non-Fiction
1563
The Three
7/22/01
Short Story
11
New
Fantasy
7,280
Treachery
7/25/01
8/2/01
Novelette
3
New
sf
11,890
Uniformity in E-Publishing
7/28/01
Article
2
New
Non-Fiction
1133
The Village in the Forest
8/3/01
Short Story
12
New
Fantasy
2054
Darian
8/7/01
8/12/01
Short Story
13
New
Fantasy
3652
Canticle for a Forgotten Outpost
8/9/01
8/10/01
Poem
1
New
sf
235
Teaching
8/14/01
8/16/01
Article
3
New
Non-Fiction
2908
Refuge
8/12/01
8/20/01
Novelette
4
New
sf
12,797
Book Work
8/21/01
Short Story
14
New
Fantasy
6,634
No Ordinary Days
8/22/01
8/23/01
Article
4
New
Non-Fiction
3676
Shadow Prince
8/26/01
9/27/01
Novella
1
New
sf
29,194
A Few Short Days
09/04/01
Article
5
New
Non-Fiction
1393
Waiting for the Last Dance
09/07/01
09/19/01
Novel
5
New
YA
43,321
Setting Reasonable Goals
9/29/01
10/2/01
Article
6
New
Non-Fiction
1324
By the Sea
10/3/01
10/7/01
Short Story
15
New
Fantasy
1079
A Message
10/7/01
Article
7
New
Non-Fiction
347
Zette's Rules for Writing
10/08/01
Article
8
New
Non-Fiction
2386
Different Doors
10/16/01
Short Story
16
New
sf
2256
Ride with the Wind
10/17/01
10/19/01
Novella
2
New
Fantasy
27,747
Playing with Fire
10/23/01
10/27/01
Novelette
5
New
sf
12,766
Sangre: When do the Fireworks Start?
10/29/01
10/30/01
Novelette
6
New
sf
8820
Sangre: Not a Ghost of a Chance
10/30/01
Novelette
7
New
sf
10,315
Return to Faneh-Thenyal
11/1/01
11/20/01
Novel
6
New
Fantasy
70,436
Tribute to Bonkers
11/12/01
Article 
9
New
Non-Fiction
1319
Epublishing as the Middle Ground
11/22/01
Article 
10
New
Non-Fiction
1044
For the Honor of the Hunt
11/23/01
11/25/01
Short Story
17
New
sf
11,700
Magic to Save the World
11/27/01
11/29/01
Short Story
18
New
Fantasy
7411
Use of Tools
11/28/01
11/29/01
Article 
11
New
Non-Fiction
1041
Teddy Bear Christmas Poem
11/29/01
11/30/01
Poem 
2
New
Fantasy
792
At the End of the Map
11/30/01
12/06/01
Short Story
19
New
Fantasy
7714
Blood of the Clan
12/15/01
12/22/01
Novelette
8
New
Fantasy
16,712
Peace: A Winterfest Tale
12/25/01
Short Story
20
New
Fantasy
835
 
Finished  material might be anything from a first to a final draft if that last draft  meant a substantial amount of reworking.
 
Travel reports are not listed although they do count in the word totals for the year.
 

Novel  -- 6
Novella --2
Novelette -- 7
Short Story -21
Articles -- 11
Poem -- 2
Submissions:
Total (2001)-- 41
17 sales (3 non pay)
 
January
The End of the World (poem) 01/04/01 Rejected 02/11/01
Epilogue to a Lost Tale (reprint sale) 01/10/01
Last Days 
of Faneh... 01/12/01 Sold 03/22/01
SIGH 
01/13/01 Rejected 03/07/01
Moment of Truth 01/14/01 Rejected 4/24/01
Sumerian Nights,  01/27/01 Rejected 03/19/01
 
 
February
A Fate Cast in Stones 02/03/01
SOLD 02/10/01
The War Between
(Into Darkness) 02/11/01
Rejected 03/08/01
Intrusion 02/18/01
Sold 
04/11/01
(Site closed)
Lucky
02/26/01
Sold 03/17/01
March
Aftermath 03/10/01 SOLD 03/10/01
End of the world 03/14/01
Rejected 
5/17/01
Weber's Site 03/19/01
Rejected 5/27/01
 
April
Legend
04/08/01
Rejected 5/15/01
Weaving the Strands of Love
04/09/01
Sold
04/11/01
Living in Caine's Hold 04/23/01
Sold
9/22/01
A Ride Through Hell and Back 4/26/01 Rejected
5/5/01
May
Sumerian Nights 05/18/01
Sold 
06/24/01
Feghoot
AKA The Visitors
5/29/01
Rejected
06/24/01
 
 
June
Legend
06/06/01
Sold 
06/17/01
Joey Mousekin's Tale 6/28/01
The Visitors 6/29/01
Sold
7/2/01
 
July
Weber's Site
7/4/01
Sold
8/20/01
Jana's War
7/11/01
Sold
7/15/01
The Moment of Truth
7/21/01
VampDan
Rejected
8/27/01
A Ride Through Hell...
7/21/01
AltReal
Rejected
09/16/01
August
Seri Ember
7/15/01
Asimov's
Rejected 10/22/01
Canticle (Poem)
7/15/01
Asimov's
Rejected
10/22/01
High Shelf
7/15/01
Grit
Christmas House
7/15/01
Goodhouse
Rejected 09/08/01
The Moment of Truth
8/27/01
RS
Sold
8/27/01
Into Darkness
8/27/01
Fables
Sold
11/18/01
If You Dream of Forests Green
8/27/01(late)
F&SF
Rejected 9/29/01
Dangerous Patterns
8/29/01
Quantum Muse
September
If You Dream of Forests Green
9/29/01
Ideomancer
Rejected
10/3/01
the end of the world and we know it 
9/30/01
Star*Line
Rejected 11/29/01
 
 
October
Book Work
10/8/01 Late
Rejected 11/13/01
F&SF
Intrusion
10/23/01
Anotherealm
Seri Ember 10/27/01 Fiction Inferno
Sold
11/29/01
 
November
The Good People of Coralville
11/8/01
Writer's Exchange
A Ride Through Hell...
11/25/01
AltReal
 
 
 
December
Differential Equations 12/08/01 Delacorte contest
Blood of the Clans sold to Bizzaro Games, 12/15/01
 
 
2000 submissions still out
Lucky
6/28/00 Rejected 02/05/01
A Fate Cast In Stones 
8/19/00 Rejected 01/10/01
Joey Mousekin's Tale 9/20/00 Rejected 01/07/01
News from the Front, 10/14/00 Rejected 03/05/01
The End of the World (poem) 11/15/00 Rejected 01/04/00
A Warrior's Work is Never Done 11/15/00 SOLD 02/03/01
Weaving the Strands of Love 12/22/00
rejected 04/05/01