2018 Roundup

2018 was an up and down writing year.

Five short story acceptances and five short story publications... Yay!

(I know this sounds like the same five stories, but it’s not. Some stories were accepted in 2017 and not published until 2018; somewhere accepted in 2018 and will not be published until 2019.)

Falling short of my yearly writing word count goal... Boo!

(Yearly writing goal was 300,000. Had to be lower to 250,000. Will likely make that.)

Getting to read my second place winning short story on a panel at a Sci Fi conference (and getting to attend that conference for free)... Yay!

(The Pawnshop of Intangible Things got second place in the 2017 Baltimore Science Fiction Society’s Ametuer Writing Contest. Later it was published in Deep Magic, my first professional sale, thus making me not an ametuer anymore. The con was Balticon. It was really cool.)

No one showing up for the panel… Boo!

(Except the readers, the panel moderator, and one other panelists three family members. Still worth it though.)

Establishing official social media author accounts on facebook and twitter… Yay!

(Find me on facebook @margerybayne and on twitter @themargerybayne.)

Not really knowing how to use twitter… Boo!

(WTF is a subtweet?)

Learning much from my ‘write 1000 words a day for 30 days’ challenge… Yay!

(This wasn’t NaNoWriMo. Podcast on my experience to come.)

Struggling with original fiction… Boo!

(Yikes.)

Still making progress with original fiction despite the ups and downs, changing jobs, and making my halfway point through graduate school… Yay!

(Yay!)

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