Progress 2005

New Work for 2005:

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
essay (counts as Short Story)

	Title	Began Finished	Novel Novelette Novella Short Article Poem Outline	Genre	# of Words
1	Serendipity Blues	1/1/05 8/29/05	Novel 1	Detective Fiction	64,102
2	Legend Makers: Kinship	1/8/05 5/14/05	Novel 2	Fantasy	85,663
3	Outline: I'm Not Who You Think	1/19/05 1/19/05	Outline 1	Contemporary YA	950
4	Musing of Four Muses SOLD	1/24/05 1/25/05	Short Story 1 (Rewrite)	Contemporary Fantasy	1800
5	Outline: The Oak and the Ash	2/1/05	Outline 2	Fantasy	7336
6	Ada Nish Pura (rewrite)	2/6/05 Restart 9/1/05 10/20/05	Novel 3	SF	116,051
7	Draw the Line	2/12/05	Short Story 2	Fantasy	8604
8	Dancer	3/8/05 4/14/05	Novel 4	SF	67,359
9	More than a Word	5/01/05 5/09/05	Short Story 3 SAD1	Fantasy	3,430
10	Garden Songs	5/15/05 5/16/05	Short Story 4 SAD2	Fantasy	1294
11	Aga's choice	5/17/05 5/17/05	Short Story 5 SAD3	Historical Fiction	1009
12	Preparations	5/18/05 5/25/05	Short Story 6 SAD4	SF	9455
13	Earring	5/26/05	Short Story 7 SAD5	Fiction	790
14	Where Dreams are Made	5/26/05 5/31/05	Short Story 8 SAD6	Urban Fantasy	1092
15	The Shop	5/28/05	Short Story 9 SAD7	Dark Fantasy	903
16	Turning the Page	5/31/05	Short Story 10 SAD8	SF	1475
17	Choices	5/31/05	Short Story 11 SAD9	Historical Fiction	1158
18	Tears and Roses	5/31/05	Short Story 12 SAD10	Fiction	637
19	Silky 2	6/6/05 7/20/05	Novel 5 (Rewrite from Scratch)	Fantasy	76,188
20	Projects	7/15/05 7/27/05	Nonfiction 1	Nonfiction	6118
21	Waiting	7/22/05	Short Story 13	Fantasy	2539
22	Kat Among the Pigeons Outline	7/22/05	Outline 3	Fantasy	8708
23	Peter T. Cat's Christmas Story: Cat and Mouse Games SOLD	7/31/05 8/01/05	Short Story 14	Fantasy	2808
24	Such Gifts as These	10/02/05	Novel 6 Rewrite from Scratch	Fantasy	82,873
25	Author Vs. Character	10/16/05	Short Story 15	Fantasy	2310
26	Feather in the Wind	10/30/05	Outline 4	SF	3748
27	Kat among the Pigeons	11/1/05 11/10/05	Novel 7	Contemporary Fantasy	102,619
28	Feather in the Wind	11/11/05 11/18/05	Novel 8	SF	50,191
29	The Time and the Place	11/19/05 11/31/05	Novel 9	SF	51,185
30	Thomas T. Bear Goes to a Christmas Party	12/10/05	Short Story 16	Fantasy	1340
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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:

Submission Totals:

Total -- 27
Blue -- still out -- 3
Dark Blue -- rejected -- 4
Red -- sold -- 15
Orange Placed, nonpaying -- 2
Green Lost in transit/mag closed -- 3

Carried over from 2004	Evolution Flash Fantastic 5/27/04 Lost (Gave up!) 4/22/05	Mirrors 11/16/04 Zumaya Accepted 7/18/05	Between a Rock and a God's Place ANDROMEDA SPACEWAYS INFLIGHT MAGAZINE 12/31/04 SOLD! 1/23/05
January	Musing of Four Muses DDP $1 Downloads 1/25/05 Accepted 1/27/05	Singer & St. Jude # 2 Bad Connections DDP 1/27/05 Accepted 1/28/05
February	Magic Stones 1000 Words 2/17/05 Accepted 4/10/05	Seeker of Shadows, Stealer of Souls DDP $1 Downloads 2/28/05 Accepted 3/1/05
March	Query Business of Writing 3/11/05 Accepted 4/15/05(?)	Query Article on Websites Rejected 4/21/05
April	No Writer is an Island Writing World.com 4/22/05 Rejected 4/29/05(?)	Farstep Station Yard Dog Press 4/30/05 Accepted 10/12/05
May	The Delicacy of Short Stories Accepted	The Shop ConQuesT Contest Won -- Pro, Horror
June	Oh Deer.... 1000 Words 6/28/05 12/15/05	Earring Story House 6/29/05 12/30/05
July	Exit Glimmer Train 7/03/05 Rejected 7/26/05	No Writer is an Island Fiction Addiction 7/28/05 Accepted 12/05/05
August	Cat and Mouse Games WhortleBerry 8/4/05 Accepted 8/4/05	Exit Story House 8/24/05 12/30/05
September	Ruins Query WP 8/29/05 Send 8/31/05	Four Paths 8/29/05 Accepted 9/?/05
October	Ruins WP Sent 9/02/05 Acceptance (And then publisher closed)	Ada Nish Pura DAW 10/31/05 Rejected 11/19/05
November	E - Publishing Book Request/Accepted	The end of the world Submitted ASIM 11/28/05
December	Such Gifts as These Daw 12/31/05	Transitions F&SF 12/31/05

Month	# of Words 1998	# of Words 1999	# of Words 2000	# of Words 2001	# of Words 2002	# 0f Words 2003	# of words 2004	# of words 2005	Difference 2004/2005
January	57,456	45,156	50,837	45,327	50,472	54,602	46,603	50,434	+3831
February	32,101	58,143	41,267	36,219	101,300	95,360	51,943	51,134	-809 (+3022)
March	35,494	31,633	31,705	34,937	113,717	132,785	109,935	71,059	-38876 (-35854)
April	38,375	41,585	30,788	35,308	58,053	64,167	40,643	90,871	+50,228 (+14,374)
May	39,988	37,080	40,332	53,526	56,483	70,769	62195	62,731	+536 (+14,910)
June	49,999	41,425	41,449	52,178	58,623	60428	35307	50,805	+15,498 (+30,308)
July	53,892	55,917	67,135	54,324	86,207	86,637	111,639	109,185	-2454 (+27,854)
August	35,798	36,709	66,162	58,483	117,695	88,608	140,048	74,814	-64234 (-37,380)
September	36,675	74,062	36,049	77,238	82,243	82,943	131,028	100,707	-29321 (-66,701)
October	45,586	59,824	52,790	100,265	101,321	101,466	74784	124,681	+49,897 (-16,804)
November	46,052	50,532	48,067	100,071	181,820	156,345	194,551	216,211	+21660 (+4856)
December	67,942	60,694	57,597	53,906	55,847	35193	36908
Total for year	538,266	601,842	567,178	701,782	1,064,141	1,029,283	1,035,404	1,002,632

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Word count totals Years 1998-2005

Month

# of Words 1998

# of Words 1999

# of Words 2000

# of Words 2001

# of Words 2002

# 0f Words 2003

# of words 2004

# of words 2005

Difference 2004/2005

January

57,456

45,156

50,837

45,327

50,472

54,602

46,603

50,434

+3831

February

32,101

58,143

41,267

36,219

101,300

95,360

51,943

51,134

-809 (+3022)

March

35,494

31,633

31,705

34,937

113,717

132,785

109,935

71,059

-38876 (-35854)

April

38,375

41,585

30,788

35,308

58,053

64,167

40,643

90,871

+50,228 (+14,374)

May

39,988

37,080

40,332

53,526

56,483

70,769

62195

62,731

+536 (+14,910)

June

49,999

41,425

41,449

52,178

58,623

60428

35307

50,805

+15,498 (+30,308)

July

53,892

55,917

67,135

54,324

86,207

86,637

111,639

# of Words
1998

# of Words
1999

-809
(+3022)

-38876
(-35854)

+50,228
(+14,374)

+536
(+14,910)

+15,498
(+30,308)

-2454
(+27,854)

-64234
(-37,380)

-29321
(-66,701)

+49,897
(-16,804)

+21660
(+4856)

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
essay (counts as Short Story)

Novel
Novelette
Novella
Short Article
Poem
Outline