I’ve spent the last couple of weeks plotting out the rest of my year (and about a half a year into the next). I’ve been working on finishing up some stories that I’ll send out to various anthologies (like Clockwork Phoenix III) when they open to submissions in late fall – they’re all stories that I’ll probably run through a couple of edits before I send them out, but for now, they’re finished, and so I’m setting them aside.
June and July will be finishing up the manuscript for the Lethe Press collection. I’ve been given a word count limit of 65-70,000, so I’ve been picking things out of my inventory and figuring out what I have left to write. As it stands, I’ll have nine pieces total for the book: 6 are already finished at a total of 38,937 words. So I have one novella and two short stories to write in the next two months to round everything out. I’ll post a word count bar here once a week, not because I think everyone is just so damn interested, heh, but more for myself. What can I say? I like the routine and I like little word count bars.
So, yeah, I’m only 59% finished, but I can easily write the remaining 26,000 words in two months – 500 words a day is no problem.