Hey everyone. Just to give the obligatory monthly update, based on how exactly I worded Goals 1a-1c, I did technically get them all done. I had done so many revisions, that I didn't feel totally confident that I could get it all greased up and clicking on all cylinders quite yet, and a review I did on the last day of February made me feel a bit overwhelmed by much work was still to be done to get it all perfect. I think I have to put it down for a while and revisit later. So, sigh, yeah things didn't end on the awesome note I was hoping with me sending my manuscript around to a bunch of places, but the point of this whole exercise is to make sure I'm getting ever-closer with every passing month, so I can't be too disappointed by a month where I got a buttfuck of adding, deleting, rearranging and rewording done.

Goal #2 went perfectly fine. In all, I sent 11 manuscripts out and have received 4 rejections thus far. All of the rejections came in a 1-week span, and at this point the rest of mine have been up there for ~1.5 months, so I'm hopeful that several of the other 7 survived the first reading and have at least been passed along to the next round of eliminations. I'm gonna wait for a few more rejections before I panic and spray out a bunch to my second-rate choices, and seeing as how that's the next step, I guess I can put down the action items on "The Was" for now.

Goal #3 was ambitious. I've kinda moved past the honeymoon phase with Wake and it's become quite apparent that there's work yet to be done. The third part of it really isn't even remotely working, and though the pieces could technically work as independent submissions, I'm much more excited about the triptych.

I don't really know what my goals should be moving forward this month. I think I'm gonna kinda let things passively tumble in my head for a bit and promise myself to revisit this every week until I get some momentum on something. That's a copout, but hey, I went a solid 2 months before I got stuck like this, so that's cool at least.