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Year to Date (2002):

I wrote 1,000,000 words in 2002.  It was a great year, and I hope that 2003 will be as much fun.

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Goal reached on November 27, 2002

NaNoWriMo 2002 Results

Freedom and Fame 
101,654 Words

 
Whispers of Winterwood
75,101 Words

 

 

Month
# of Words
1998
# of Words
1999
# of Words 2000
# of Words 2001
 
# of Words 2002
Difference 2001/2002
January
57,456
45,156
50,837
45,327
50,472
5145
February
32,101
58,143
41,267
36,219
101,300
65081
(+70,226)
March
35,494
31,633
31,705
34,937
113,717
78780
(+149,006)
April
38,375
41,585
30,788
35,308
58,053
22745
(+171,751)
May
39,988
37,080
40,332
53,526
56,483
4305
(+176,056)
June
49,999
41,425
41,449
52,178
58,623
6445
(+182,501)
July
53,892
55,917
67,135
54,324
86,207
31883
(+214,384)
August
35,798
36,709
66,162
58,483
117,695
59212
(+273,596)
September
36,675
74,062
36,049
77,238
82,243
5005
(+278,601)
October
45,586
 59,824
52,790
100,265
101,321
1056
(+279,657)
November
46,052
 50,532
48,067
100,071
181,820
81,749
(+361,406)
December
67,942
 60,694
57,597
53,906
55847
1941
(+363,347)
Total for year
538,266
 601,842
567,178
701,782
1,064,141
+363,347
 
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
Novelette
Novella
Short Article
Poem
Genre 
# of Words
or Pages edited
Wildwolf Brother
01/01/02
Novelette
1
Fantasy
11,654
Quest for the Dark Staff #1 Aubreyan
01/01/02
02/25/02
Novel
1
Fantasy
83,554
The Hunter and the Hunted
01/01/02
04/12/02
Novella
1
SF
28191
Would That It Were
01/10/02
01/12/02
Short
1
Fantasy
5236
History's Shadows
01/25/02
01/26/02
Short
2
Fantasy
1033
But is it Romance?
01/29/02
Article
1
NF
1566
Game of Time #1
02/01/02
08/13
Novella
2
Fantasy
25,616
Fantasy Movie
02/02/02
02/12/02
Article
2
NF
1250
Who Rules In Hell
02/02/02
Short
3
Fantasy
1267
If It Burns
02/02/02
Short
4
SF
3507
A Tale of Cats and Rats and Really Bad  Choices
02/16/02
Short
5
SF
2278
Living in the Age of Madness
2/25/02
Short
6
SF
1097
Quest for the Dark Staff #2 Brendan
2/26/02
3/21/02
Novel
2
Fantasy
76,512
Whispers
2/27/02
2/28/02
Short
7
Fantasy
2873
Mars Run
03/08/02
04/13/02
Novella
3
SF
21,382
The Link
3/20/02
3/25/02
Short
8
SF
1840
Ada Nish Pura, Book 1
3/27/02
Novel 
3
SF
62,111
Quest for the Dark Staff # 3 Crystal and the Stars
4/1/01
6/15/02
Novel
4
Fantasy
83,280
The Price of the Song
4/6/02
4/8/02
Short
9
Fantasy
2370
Seeker of Shadows, Stealer of Souls
4/13/02
4/16/02
Short
10
Fantasy
1875
Holding On
4/23/02
Short
11
Present
1133
Womb with a View
5/20/02
5/31/02
Short
12
SF
2318
World View
5/31/02
Poem
1
Fantasy
278
Undiscovered Country
6/16/02
Short
13
SF
623
Letting Go
6/17/02
Short
14
SF
1312
A Prayer for the Lost
6/18/02
Short
15
SF
1197
Quest for the Dark Staff # 4 Dacey's Dream
6/20/02
Novel
5
Fantasy
75,329
A Walk in the Wilds
7/22/02
7/26/02
Short
15
SF
2099
Sangre -- May Day
7/25/02
7/26/02
Short
16
SF
6326
Quest for the Dark Staff # 5 Eliora's World
7/25/02
8/18/02
Novel
6
Fantasy
40,324
The Price of History
7/29/02
8/4/02
Short
17
SF
9296
The Last Days
8/10/02
Short
18
Fantasy
1310
Muse
8/19/02
9/9/02
Novel 
7
Mystery
65,342 
Quest for the Dark Staff # 6 Freedom and Fame
9/20/02
10/31/02
(outline)
Fantasy
13,482
Aria Wakes
9/14/02
9/24/03
Novelette
2
Fantasy
10403
The Prince and the Guardian of the Trees
9/27/02
9/29/02
Short
19
Fantasy
2688
Fighting for Strangers #1-- Prince of the North
10/01/02
10/21/02
Novel
7
Fantasy
65,129
The Rites of Spring
10/12/02
10/15/02
Short
20
Fantasy
2904
Beloved of Mother
10/24/02
11/20/02
Short
21
Fantasy
4109
Quest for the Dark Staff # 6 Freedom and Fame
11/01/02
(NaNo)
11/10/02
Novel
8
Fantasy
101,654
Bugzapped/Chapter 3 (newsletter story)
11/11/02
(partial)
SF
1199
Whispers of Winterwood
11/11/02
11/30/02
Novel
9
YA Mystery
75,101
Sangre -- Turkey Shoot
11/26/02
12/31/02
Novella
4
SF
16,505
Garrison's Gorillas -- The Wrong Time and The Wrong Place
12/9/02
12/23/02
Novella
5
Fanfic
17,570
Finished  material might be anything from a first to a final draft if that last draft  meant a substantial amount of reworking.
Travel reports, as well as many articles (I lose track of them) are not listed although they do count in the word totals for the year.

 

Submissions:
Total -- 48
rejected -- 17
sold -- 18 
Placed, nonpaying -- 7
 
Carried over from 2001
Joey Mousekin's Tale 6/28/01
Random House Children's Books Rejection 09/27/02
High Shelf
7/15/01
Grit
rejection 
6/1/02
Intrusion
10/23/01
Anotherealm Rejection 01/09/01
 
 
The Good People of Coralville
11/8/01
Writer's Exchange
Sale 2/26/02
A Ride Through Hell...
11/25/01
AltReal
Sale, 
01/01/02
(January)
Differential Equations 12/08/01 Delacorte contest rejection 04/23/02
  
January
Welcome to SpirosBlaack
 sale
01/02/02
the end of the world
ShadowKeep
01/03/02
Placed
01/05/02
(March)
Captain's Last Orders
Lunacat contest
01/7/02
Sale
02/03/02
Intrusion
10/23/01
Jintsu Newsletter Sale 
01/10/02
Broken Wings Ideomancer 1/20/01 rejected 1/22/02
One Demand Too Many Anotherealm Print Sale 1/28/02
Would That It Were F&SF 01/28/02
Rejected 2/09/02
  
February
Who Rules in Hell Ideomancer 2/6/02 Rejected 3/5/02
Aubreyan (and other 7)
02/15/02
Double Dragon Sale
2/17/02
Ride the Wind 2/18/02 Jintsu Rejected 04/14/02
Would that It Were ASIM 2/26/02 Rejected 03/18/02
Broken Wings Alternate Realities 2/26/02 
Sale 2/28/02
Finding the Crossroads 02/28/02 Shadowkeep
Placed  3/2/02
    
March
Playing with Fire
Low Port
3/27/02
Rejected 9/19/02
Would That It Were
Fables
3/31/02 Sale 5/3/02
    
April
Who Rules in Hell
Strange Horizons
4/29/02
Rejection 6/1/02
Book Work
Asimov's
4/30/02
Rejected
7/1/02
    
May
Dangerous Patterns
resub 4/16/02
Quantum Muse
Rejection 5/23/02
Dangerous Patterns
Dark Moon Rising 5/28/02
Placed
7/15/02
 
  
June
Letting Go
6/21/02
F&SF
Rejected
7/1/02
Seeker of Shadows
6/29/02
Ideomancer
Rejected
7/1/02
    
July
Three Fragments of a Lost Life
Asimov's
7/25/02
Rejected
11/01/02
Elf Song
Reprint
Placed
(Robert)
7/27/02
 
 
August
Remembrance
Forward Motion Ebook
08/26/02
Accepted
08/28/02
Haiku for 9/11
Forward Motion Ebook
08/28/02
Accepted
08/29/02
Book Work
Wyrd Wravings
08/29/02
Who Rules in Hell
Alternate Realities
8/31/02
September
If You Dream of Forests Green
3SF
9/19/02
For the Honor of the Hunt
F&SF
9/22/02
Rejected 10/01/02
    
October
The Price of the Song
DDP Anthology
10/01/02
Sold 10/15/02
Subtextual Evidence Resale Planet Relish 10/24/02
S.& SJ # 1 The Lost Cause
DDP
10/25/02
  
November
Bugzapped Chapter 3, WEE Newsletter
11/11/02
Accepted
11/12/02
Beloved of Mother
11/29/02
    
December
Seeker of Shadows
F&SF
12/29/02
 
Rites of Spring
Asimov's
12/30/02