Five weeks, 22 stories worked on, 5 revised, 16 submitted

I sat down today to check in after an intense week of novella revision. I needed to decide which short story to revise for my sixth and final revision to meet my Clarion West write-a-thon goal. *

Because I've been submitting as I've been revising, doing little nips and tucks here and there, I honestly couldn't remember which stories I'd revised for the writeathon. So I went into my "recent files" list, scrolled back to early June, and counted. 

Blink. Blink. Wow.

I've actually worked on **twenty-two** stories at some level during the last five weeks, and drafted three new ones (only one of which is likely to survive to adulthood). I've submitted stories 16 times since early June, which for me is amazing 'cuz I'm not great at getting stories out there.  

So. Awesome! I'm doing this every summer from now on! Um. But I still need to decide which story to work on next. LOL.

     *Clarion West is an intense, six-week residential SF & F writing workshop.
The write-a-thon raises money for it. Many of your favorite SF authors may be taking part; Clarion West and Clarion San Diego are well-respected. Check it out!

Clarion Write A Thon and STREETCHH Goals!

 So it occurs to me I've neglected, again, to mention something semi-cool that I'm doing.

I'm taking part in the Clarion write-a-thon! 

It's a fundraiser for Clarion West, to be specific (confusing, since both are on the West Coast now --the program in Seattle is Clarion West, and the one that originated in the midwest but is now in San Diego is Clarion). They're summer residential Science Fiction and Fantasy writing workshops; intense and amazing.

During the six weeks the current class of lucky and talent folk are taking the workshop, Clarion West runs a write-a-thon. Alumni, fans, or writers interested in working on their fiction set goals and try to reach them. And, well, ask for donations to help the writing program offer scholarships and pay its staff.

We're now in week... four? Starting week four. I've gotten 16 submissions out during the write-a-thon, and revised four short stories. I'm working on a novelette now so I've slowed down. 

The whole event has a been a boon to my motivation. 

I met my fundraising goal!!  (Thank you, Larina!)

 Some people did "stretch goals" so I'm adding a few -- only two weeks left! I've added a few -- "Tuckerization," "write to your prompt" or "write you a story." 

Anyway, check it out! Some of your favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy authors are probably taking part. The link above will take you to my fundraising page, but you can find everyone who's participating by doing an "empty" search here: https://secure.qgiv.com/event/writeathon/search/

I *knew* I was forgetting something...

 Hey! My first pro-sale story came out! A week ago Tuesday night! And I posted about it on Facebook and Twitter and via email to friends and kinda giggled all week!

...but guess who forgot to post it on HER OWN BLOG? 

Yeah, well, apparently I'm not alone on that. Anyway, here's the "permalink" to Daily Science Fiction for "Funny Baby," which isn't really all that funny nor is it really about babies....

https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/biotech/ellen-l-saunders/funny-baby.