One of my goals for this month (I have several I’ll discuss later) involves getting plugged back into the business end of writing. The actual writing part of writing is and has been going well. Well enough that I have a backlog of stories that ought to be in the mail. The fact that they aren’t — and haven’t been for six months or more — is frankly embarrassing.

So for the next week or so, I’ll be focused on:

  • Getting my tracking system updated with several missing submissions, the rejection letters of which currently reside in The Filing Cabinet Drawer of Doom.
  • Market research.
  • Putting actual stories in actual envelopes and actually mailing them.

To guarantee I don’t cop out on that last one, I’m going to post how many stories I’ve gotten in the mail every day this week. We’ll see how this goes. I’m open to self-punishment suggestions should that number ever be 0.