Posted by Happy New Year everyone! I generally write a “Year in Review” post for my blog earlier than this but I got late this time due to vacation hangover.
You can read my past year-end reviews here:
Here are some of my stats from the year for you to gorge on:
- 175 submissions (including F/NF/poetry)
- 12 acceptances (6 NF, 5 F, 1 poem) (7.4% acceptance rate)
- Total Earnings: $443
- Further Income Expected: $165 (promised but will pay on publication)
- 17 personal rejections from higher-tier literary journals*
- 70k words written
- 10 short stories completed, 2 drafted
- 2 essays written
*Some might feel this is an odd thing to brag about but anyone who’s been submitting long enough knows how nice it feels to get a rejection that’s clearly NOT a stock form letter.
Some of my major successes:
- My story in Kitaab’s Best Asian Speculative Fiction
- 2nd place in On The Premises themed story contest
- My essay in The Writer magazine
- My humor piece in The Offing
I usually beat myself up for my stats but I’ve learned to put it in perspective. For now it’s the best I can do with a full-time job and kids. At some point I really have to pull up my socks and do something about the novels in my virtual drawer, because long fiction is where it’s at. All the same I immensely enjoy writing and publishing short fiction and essays.
In any case I hope to focus on my novels in 2019.
What are your plans and hopes for the New Year? Please share so I know I’m not alone in forging crazy plans!
Gargi's World 
Happy New Year Gargi and that has been an achievement, a sign of working real hard and determination in submitting, earning. I wish you ten fold the sum earned the past year.
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Thanks so much Vishal! Wishing you all possible writing success as well!
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I think these are amazing stats and it’s a cool idea to keep track this way and report on them. Keeps you accountable. 70k words written is the biggest accomplishment of all. That’s really something!!
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Thanks so much, Nina! My submission tracker helps me record my stats quite easily. The 70k words does make me happy, however I have to accept the fact that it might not be achievable this year as I intend to focus on revising and editing the stories I have already written.
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