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🆕15/11/25:

I signed my first contract for my first published story on Wednesday! Seems a step closer to reality. There is still a part of me that thinks something will go sideways and the publication won't happen, not because I'm negative but because it just still feels so surreal that it actually happened after all these years. My goal of getting another story published seems much more urgent to me now since I don't want this one publication to be a fluke.

I polished 30 pages of PTD. I wanted to do another ten, but my brain is mush. I'm still due to finish before my deadline, so I'm in good shape. Only a couple more weekends to go, then I start chopping and polish my pitch a little.

Another interesting note: I have 5 followers on Medium now! Makes me think I should step up my non-fiction article posts.

01/11/25:

Not much new to report. 130 pages of editing is still needed before I start chopping chapters in PTD. There's a lot that can go away, so reaching that 80,000 word mark should be no problem at all. Another 40 pages of hard-cut polishing done!

25/10/25:

Now, at the two-thirds mark of editing PTD, I find myself wondering why my initial polishing was so poor. I'm mostly just adjusting language right now, but I've come across a few errors in the plot that needed to be corrected. This being my 3rd pass of the story, I ask you, how does this much of the novel need to be adjusted? Did I just phone-in those first few polishes? I must have. I still have another third to go and I've removed 3,000 words just in language adjustments. Could I have grown so much in the past few years? Maybe Scribophile helped me more than I was willing to admit.

I'm a little antsy waiting for Space & Time to give me an answer to "Paradise Burned." I was thinking about sending it off to another magazine prematurely, but took a breath and decided to wait another month.

Also, "Taming Beasts" is now with Writers of the Future. Here's hoping I get another Honourable Mention, or better!

18/10/25:

Got another 35 pages edited on PTD. Still on schedule for my deadline!

I also sent "Taming Beasts" back out. I might send that to Writers of the Future if this latest magazine rejects. I had hoped I figured out the recipe. I refuse to believe my first publication was a fluke.

11/10/25:

I got published! It deserves a Writing Ruminations, of course, but I will ... ruminate on it some more before posting. Naturally, I spent a little bit of time tweaking the site after that news.

I find polishing (editing) quite tedious. After about twenty pages, I start to go cross-eyed. However, procrastinating is no longer an option, as you know from my previous post below. I much prefer creating over fixing. But, I managed to polish 40 pages of PTD today, so *pat on back.*

I also submitted "Otherworldly" and "Taming Beasts" to other magazines. 'Twas a hectic Thanksgiving weekend for my writing, but one I'm thankful for, that's for sure!

28/09/25:

This weekend was a PTD editing weekend. I burned through about 4 chapters and realized September was almost over. I did some quick math and realized if I want to submit PTD to the contest I intend to submit to, I will need to edit about 35 pages every weekend. Hopefully, that will leave me with enough time to make my cuts to bring the story down under 100,000 words by December 14th. Time to crack the whip!

20/09/25:

I uploaded "Won't Die Old" to WattPad. I also edited another chapter of PTD.

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I am currently developing a spy/treasure hunting novel set in '50s South America that eventually leads to Nazis in Antarctica. I'd like to write a short story prequel first to get myself into the universe.

I'm also cooking up a multi-arc short story idea for "The Eespote Gate."

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