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Year to Date (2003):
Month
# of Words
1998
# of Words
1999
# of Words 2000
# of Words 2001
 
# of Words 2002
# 0f Words 2003
Difference 2002/2003
January
57,456
45,156
50,837
45,327
50,472
54,602
+4130
February
32,101
58,143
41,267
36,219
101,300
95,360
-4940
 (-810)
March
35,494
31,633
31,705
34,937
113,717
132,785
+19,068
 (+18,258)
April
38,375
41,585
30,788
35,308
58,053
64,167
+6114
 (+24,372)
May
39,988
37,080
40,332
53,526
56,483
70,769
+13,926
 (+38,298)
June
49,999
41,425
41,449
52,178
58,623
60428
+1805
 (+40,103)
July
53,892
55,917
67,135
54,324
86,207
86,637
+430
 (+40,533)
August
35,798
36,709
66,162
58,483
117,695
88,608
-29,087
(+11,446)
September
36,675
74,062
36,049
77,238
82,243
82943
+700
(+12,166)
October
45,586
 59,824
52,790
100,265
101,321
101,466
+145
(+12,311)
November
46,052
 50,532
48,067
100,071
181,820
156,345
-25,457
(-13,164)
December
67,942
 60,694
57,597
53,906
55,847
 
 
Total for year
538,266
 601,842
567,178
701,782
1,064,141
994,110
 
 
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
Outline
Genre 
# of Words
1
Emergent
1/1/03
Novella
1
Fantasy
22109
2
Gix War
1/1/03
2/14/03
Outline
1
Fantasy
13731
3
Putting Up the Sword
1/1/03
1/3/03
Short
1
Fantasy
2460
4
Sangre: Home for the Holidays
1/4/03
1/8/03
Short
2
SF
7916
5
Year of the Fire Rat
1/14/03
1/20/03
Short
3
Fantasy
6036
6
Niche (AKA Chasing Martian... Mice)
1/21/03
2/02/03
Novelette
1
SF
12982
7
Devlin Short 1: Nightmares and Monsters
2/03/03
4/21/03
Novelette
2
SF
16,246
8
Those Who Seek Sanctuary
2/09/03
3/20/03
Novella 
2
Fantasy
35,673
9
Hope in Hell
2/15/03
2/18/03
Outline 
2
Fantasy
23215
10
Gix War
2/20/03
3/7/03
Novel
1
Fantasy
79,350
11
Hope in Hell
3/8/03
12/12/03
Novel 
2
Fantasy
46,274,
12
Doors (outline) (AKA First Open Door )
3/15/03
3/24/03
Outline 
3
Fantasy
9892
13
Glory
(AKA First Open Door )
3/25/03
4/12/03
10/07/03
?
Novel
3
Fantasy
71,423
115,969
14
Children Play in Shadows
4/13/03
4/14/03
Short 
4
SF
1244
15
The Musing of Four Muses
4/19/03
4/20/03
Short
5
Fantasy
1540
16
Ruins Outline
4/22/03 
Outline
4
Mystery
1558
17
Ruins
4/23/03
5/03/03
Novel
4
Mystery
84,543
18
On Feathered Wings
5/1/03
Short
6
SF
1679
19
Looking for the Exit
5/2/03
Short
7
Mainstream
2111
20
The Last Throw
5/3/03
Short
8
Dark Fantasy
981
21
The Jester's Gift
5/4/03
Short
9
SF
1354
22
Up to Our Asses in Alligators
5/5/03
6/17/03
Short 10
humor
1720
23
Uncertain Waters
6/26/03
7/15/03
Novelette
3
Fantasy
14,986
24
The Sins of Youth
7/5/03
8/27/03
Short 11
SF
8685
25
Badlands
7/17/03
10/14/03
Novel 5
SF
106,385
26
Touching History (Chaco)
7/24/03
Picture Article
nf
973
27
Ada Nish Pura 2 outline
8/21/03
outline
5
SF
2572
28
Ada Nish Pura 2 (To add to first novel)
8/30/03
9/1/03
Novel
6
SF
40,047
29
Journey to Winter
outline
9/11/03
outline
6
fantasy
4412
30
Farstep Station
outline
9/11/03
Outline
7
SF
3644
31
Mirror
9/27/03
Outline
8
fantasy
8081
32
The Evolution of Chance
10/11/03
Short
12
SF/Horror
478
33
Space Nightmares
10/18/03
10/19/03
Novelette
4
FF
6335
34
High Memories
10/20/03
10/25/03
Novelette
5
FF
12,534
35
Inside Wargames
10/26/03
12/14/03
Novelette
6
FF
12,526
36
Mirrors/1 (NaNo1)
11/1/03
11/8/03
Novel
7
fantasy
72,081
37
Mirrors/2 Journey to Winter (NaNo2)
11/8/03
Novel
8
fantasy
84,264
38
Story 1
12/15/03
Short 13
fantasy
 
39
A Very Proper Bear
12/24/03
Short 14
Fantasy
1724
           
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.
Below is my submission tracker:
Submissions:
Total -- 28
Blue -- still out -- 3
Dark Blue -- rejected -- 13
Red -- sold -- 7
Placed, nonpaying -- 1
Lost in transit/mag closed -- 4
Query -- 1 (accepted)
Carried over from 2002
Book Work
Wyrd Wravings
08/29/02
Sold
1/2/03
1
Who Rules in Hell
Alternate Realities
8/31/02
Ezine Closed
2
If You Dream of Forests Green
3SF
9/19/02
LOST
3
S.& SJ # 1 The Lost Cause
DDP
10/25/02
Sold
1/18/03
4
 
Beloved of Mother
Sword and Sorc
11/29/02
Rejected
11/16/03
5
Seeker of Shadows
F&SF
12/29/02
Rejected 01/13/02
6
Rites of Spring
Asimov's
12/30/02
Rejected 4/10/03
7
 
January
Playing with Fire
Analog
1/4/03
Rejected 2/7/03
8
Seeker of Shadows
DKA
1/22/03
Sold
2/5/03
9
 
 
February
Joey Mousekin's Tale
AAK
2/7/03
Rejected, 3/31/03
10
If You Dream of Forests Green
3SF
2/8/03
magazine closed
3/31/03
11
Three Fragments of a Broken Life
Ideomancer
2/20/03
Rejected 2/23/03
12
 
March
Three Fragments of a Broken Life
Fiction Inferno
3/10/03
magazine closed
11/07/03
13
For the Honor of the Hunt
Analog
3/21/03
Rejected 4/30/03
14
 
 
April
Children Play in Shadows
Just Weird Enough
4/22/03
Rejected 5/10/03
15
Musing of Four Muses
Writer Online
4/22/03
16
 
 
May
  Dirge for a Forgotten Outpost
Fables
5/25/03
17
Playing with Fire
F&SF
5/31/03
Rejected
6/16/03
18
 
 
June
  If You Dream of Forests Green
ROF
6/20/03
Rejected
10/27/03
19
  Up To Our Asses in Alligators
Planet Relish
6/28/03
20
 
 
July
 Honor Bound Query 07/11/03
Go Ahead 7/13/03
21
  Who Rules in Hell
Launchpad
07/23/03
Sold
22
Touching History (Chaco picture & article)
A Word's Worth
7/25/03
7/26/03
23
 
August
On Feathered Wings, Ideomancer 8/1/03
Rejected 8/5/03
24
  Honor Bound 8/12/03
Yard Dog Press
Sold
8/19/03
25
 
 
September
  Why the old woman...
12th Planet, 9/28/03
26
  Exit
WDContest
9/30/03
27
 
 
October
  The Evolution of Chance
Ideomancer
10/11/03
Rejected 11/7/03
  On Feathered Wings
Fifth Di
10/11/03
Accepted 11/7/03
 
 
November
Evolution
FlashQuake
11/8/03
  Beloved of Mother
F&SF
11/29/03
Rejected
12/15/03
 
 
December
Singer & St. Jude Series
Sold DDP
12/04/03
Life in Siouxland
1000 Words
12/16/03
Accepted 2/24/03
 
 
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