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Year to Date (1999):
| Month |
# of Words
|
# of Words
|
Difference |
| January |
57456 |
45,156 |
-12300 |
| February |
32101 |
58,143 |
+26042 |
| March |
35494 |
31,633 |
-3861 |
| April |
38375 |
41,585 |
+3210 |
| May |
39988 |
37080 |
-2908 |
| June |
49999 |
41425 |
-8574 |
| July |
53892 |
55917 |
+2025 |
| August |
35798 |
36709 |
+911 |
| September |
36675 |
74062 |
+37387 |
| October |
45586 |
59824 |
+14238 |
| November |
46052 |
50532 |
+4480 |
| December |
67,942 |
60694 |
-7248 |
| Total for year | 538,266 |
601,842 |
+63,576 |
Zette's
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Current Status |
Reject |
Accept |
Novel |
2 |
3 |
2 (electronic sales) |
Short Stories |
3 |
21 |
7 (Internet sales) |
Work for 1999 |
Completed |
Unfinished |
|
Novel,
|
2 |
0 |
|
Novel,
|
2 |
0 |
|
Novella |
3 |
1 |
|
Short Story |
18 |
0 |
|
Novel,
|
2 |
1 |
|
Material worked on:
| Title | Began
Finished |
Novel or Short Story |
New Rewrite |
Genre | # of Words |
|
Singer & St. Jude # 2: Bad Connections |
1/1/99
5/12/99 |
Novel
1 |
New
1 |
SF | 86,038 |
|
Vita's Vengeance 2 Added to VV1 |
1/7/99
2/27/99 |
Novel
2 |
New
2 |
SF | 66,643 |
| Circe's Gifts | 2/28/99
11/22/99 |
Novel
3 |
Rewrite
1 |
Fantasy | 42,099 |
| Sub-Textual Evidence... | 3/2/99
3/3/99 |
Short Story
1 |
New
1 |
SF | 4649 |
| Ashland | 3/8/99
10/12/99 |
Novella
1 |
New
1 |
Fantasy | 30,639 |
| Sumerian Nights | 3/11/99
4/5/99 |
Short Story
2 |
New
2 |
Fantasy | 5103 |
| Bejeweled | 3/31/99
6/1/99 |
Short Story
3 |
New
3 |
Fantasy | 7309 |
| The Tale of Going Forth | 4/8/99
4/20/99 |
Short Story
4 |
New
4 |
Fantasy | 8805 |
| One Demand Too Many | 4/20/99
4/20/99 |
Short Story
5 |
New
5 |
Fantasy | 1310 |
| Living Among Them | 6/5/99
7/13/99 |
Novella
2 |
Rewrite
1 |
SF | 34,950 |
| Lucky | 7/9/99
7/10/99 |
Short Story
6 |
New
6 |
SF | 7935 |
| Journey | 7/14/99
9/12/99 |
Novel
4 |
Rewrite
2 |
Fantasy | 95,869 |
| Waiting for God on the Eve... | 7/25/99
7/26/99 |
Short Story
7 |
New
7 |
SF | 1791 |
| Killing the Dragon | 8/9/99
8/10/99 |
Short Story
8 |
New
8 |
SF | 6619 |
| Last Days of Faneh-Thenyal | 9/13/99
9/18/99 |
Short Story
9 |
New
9 |
Fantasy | 10,469 |
| The Miller's Son |
9/20/99
9/25/99 |
Short Story
10 |
New
10 |
Fantasy | 4595 |
| Joey Mouskin's Tale |
9/26/99
9/30/99 |
Short Story
11 |
New
11 |
Fantasy | 11,318 |
| Those Who Reach |
10/4/99
10/8/99 |
Short Story
12 |
New
12 |
SF | 2,870 |
| Escape from Byzantium |
10/11/99
10/17/99 |
Short Story
13 |
New
13 |
Fantasy | 10,005 |
| Our Lady of the Trees |
10/18/99
10/18/99 |
Short Story
14 |
New
14 |
Fantasy | 1149 |
| Sigh |
10/25/99
10/31/99 |
Short Story
15 |
New
15 |
SF | 16,903 |
| Symphony in Ursa Minor |
11/1/99
11/7/99 |
Short Story
16 |
New
16 |
SF | 10,409 |
| Aristotle's Christmas Mission |
11/15/99
11/18/99 |
Short Story
17 |
New
17 |
Fantasy | 1124 |
| The Moment of Truth |
11/16/99
11/16/99 |
Short Story
18 |
New
18 |
SF | 2,592 |
| Devlin's Team # 4 Missing Persons |
11/23/99
12/13/99 |
Novella
3 |
Rewrite
3 |
SF | 31,949 |
| Walking the Edge | 12/1/99 |
Novella
4 |
New
|
SF | 24,391 |
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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. |
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Rewrites are complete re-workings of an older manuscript usually by retyping the entire story from scratch. |
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Travel reports are not listed although they do count in the word totals for the year. |
Edited material:
| Title | Began
Finished |
Novel |
Finished or Unfinished |
Genre | # of Pages |
| Vita's Vengeance | 1/1/99
5/31/99 |
Novel | Finished | SF | 940
832 |
| Badlands | 6/1/99 | Novel | Unfinished | SF | 494 |
| Silky | 9/1/99
11/22/99 |
Novel | Finished | SF | 550
506 |
Submissions:
(Blue -- still out, Black -- rejected, Red -- sold!)
| January |
Weber's Site Rejected 2/12/99 |
Epilogue Rejected 4/23/99 |
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| February |
Weber's Site Rejected 3/9/99 |
Silky Rejected 8/14/99 |
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| March |
Sub-Textual Evidence... Rejected 4/26/99 |
Weber's Site rejected 4/17/99 |
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| April |
Sumerian Nights Rejected 4/27/99 |
Weber's Site Rejected 6/10/99 | Warrior's Work |
Trans- gressed Rejected 6/3/99 |
Sub-Textual Evidence... rejected 5/7/99 |
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| May | Sumerian Nights |
One
Demand... Rejected 5/11/99 |
Sub
Textual 5/24/99 Rejected 6/10/99 |
One Demand 5/24/99 Rejected 6/5/99 |
Medusan Mutation 5/24/99 Rejected 1/24/00 |
Shepherd Boy 5/24/99 Rejected 6/7/99 |
| June |
Epilogue 6/13/99 Accepted by Jackhammer 6/20/99 |
Elf Song 6/28/99 Rejected 8/5/99 |
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| July |
Weber's Site 7/12/99 |
One Demand 7/12/99 Rejected 8/23/99 |
Transgr. 7/12/99 Rejected 7/22/99 |
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| August |
Sub-Textual Evidence... 8/9/99 Rejected 9/13/99 |
Transgr. 8/9/99 Rejected 8/17/99 |
Lucky 8/9/99 Rejected 8/16/99 |
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| September |
Waiting... 9/2/99 Accepted by Jackhammer 9/2/99 |
Sub-Textual Evidence... 9/20/99 Accepted by Planet Relish 10/6/99 |
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| October |
Elfsong 10/8/99 Accepted by Jackhammer 11/4/99 |
Lucky 10/10/99 Rejected 12/27/99 |
Joey Mousekin's Tale 10/14/99 Rejected 12/3/99 |
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| November |
Twilight 11/13/99 Accepted by Jackhammer 11/27/99 |
Silky 11/25/99 Possible acceptance Embiid Inc, 11/27/99 |
The Moment of Truth 11/29/99 Rejected 12/10/99 |
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| December |
Transgressed 12/12/99 Accepted by Dark Matter 12/23/99 |
The Good People... 12/27/99 |