2008 – Wrap Up
I only finished one story this year, what with moving, Dragon Age and a second child I found little time for writing. I’m taking a lot of time off in 2009 so I’m going to see if I can increase my productivity back to what it was in 2007.
In 2008, I:
- Sold and saw in print: ‘A Ragman’s Vow’ (On Spec, Summer 2008)
- Added ‘The End of the Road’ to AnthologyBuilder (originally published in Not One Of Us)
- Sold “From the Sea” to On Spec (perhaps for publication in 2009)?
- A couple stories being held for additional consideration, fingers crossed!
Plus for kicks, my abridged writing history (skipped the middle years), as generated by my writing organizer YourOtherMind.
| Year | 1991 | 1993 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Submissions | 1 | 3 | 70 | 46 | 3 |
| Acceptances | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Rejections, Total | 1 | 3 | 67 | 32 | 0 |
| Rejections, Form | 1 | 3 | 45 | 28 | 0 |
| Rejections, Positive | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 0 |
| No response or Other | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 2 |
And my work-effort, also generated from YourOtherMind (new feature, not yet released… I only finished implementing it in December, so it is only showing one month of work):
| Year | 2008 |
| Minutes | 690 |
| Words | 5941 |
| Finished | 1 |
| Retired | 1 |
| Added | 24 |
| Submissions | 6 |
Brent Knowles
Former lead designer at BioWare (Dragon Age: Origins, Neverwinter Nights). Creator of Raiders of the Serpent Sea.