2024 writing year in review
Jan. 2nd, 2025 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
p_h_leeIn 2024 I published 6 stories.
A Sojourn in the Fifth City, in Lightspeed
A Sad Song For A Young Tarantula, in Sunday Morning Transport
Only Some of True Love's Miracles, in Lightspeed
Richard Nixon and the Princess of the Crows, in Lightspeed
The V*mpire, in Reactor
and
The Ones Who Come at Last, in Lightspeed
This is a bit of a comeback from 2023, where I published 6, largely due to a large backlog in Lightspeed finally getting published.
In 2024, I sold one short story on eight total submissions. This is considerably down vs. earlier years (the four previous years have average 52 submissions a year.) The reason for this is that I have been working exclusively on novels, and also that I've sold off almost all my backlog of short fiction-- without writing anything new, I have nothing to submit! (Sale / submission ratio is pretty consistently in the 1/7 range, though, so I was mostly on target there.)
In terms of work done, I wrote the end of a novel at the beginning of this year and then spend all year revising it in a difficult, tiresome, mostly counter-productive process. It was miserable and I did not enjoy it. This year I have another large revision that needs to take priority (on a different book, grateful for that at least) and I am also hoping to make good progress on a new novel and 1-2 novellas.
I would like to write more short fiction again. There are also a couple of stories I would like to revise. But I'm not sure where I will be able to make the time for it.
There's other writing stuff happening but I'm not currently allowed to talk about it in public.
A Sojourn in the Fifth City, in Lightspeed
A Sad Song For A Young Tarantula, in Sunday Morning Transport
Only Some of True Love's Miracles, in Lightspeed
Richard Nixon and the Princess of the Crows, in Lightspeed
The V*mpire, in Reactor
and
The Ones Who Come at Last, in Lightspeed
This is a bit of a comeback from 2023, where I published 6, largely due to a large backlog in Lightspeed finally getting published.
In 2024, I sold one short story on eight total submissions. This is considerably down vs. earlier years (the four previous years have average 52 submissions a year.) The reason for this is that I have been working exclusively on novels, and also that I've sold off almost all my backlog of short fiction-- without writing anything new, I have nothing to submit! (Sale / submission ratio is pretty consistently in the 1/7 range, though, so I was mostly on target there.)
In terms of work done, I wrote the end of a novel at the beginning of this year and then spend all year revising it in a difficult, tiresome, mostly counter-productive process. It was miserable and I did not enjoy it. This year I have another large revision that needs to take priority (on a different book, grateful for that at least) and I am also hoping to make good progress on a new novel and 1-2 novellas.
I would like to write more short fiction again. There are also a couple of stories I would like to revise. But I'm not sure where I will be able to make the time for it.
There's other writing stuff happening but I'm not currently allowed to talk about it in public.
