W1S1 2011 Report Card

It's the end of 2011 and the W1S1 challenge for 2011 is coming to a close. Somehow I managed to keep up and produce at least one new story per month. November and December were particularly unproductive. Burnout, I think. Bottom line: I wrote 15 stories and 13 of those are published or forthcoming. Thank you W1S1 for pushing me.

For next year, I want to stay with the story a month challenge but put more energy into some longer works, that is a novel and some novellas. Time to reload for 2012.

Month	Story	Word Count	Status
January	"A Mother's Gift"	2900	Published in Silver Blade Magazine
February	"Why the Squonk Weeps"	1300	Published in Digital Dragon Magazine
March	"Shafts to Hell"	1300	Published in How the West Was Wicked (Pill Hill Press)
April	"The Crooked House of Coins"	3700	Published in There Was a Crooked House (Pill Hill Press)
	"The Fletcher's Daughter"	1500	Published in Residential Aliens
May	"Tapestries of Betrayal"	4000	Published in Greek Myths Revisited (Wicked East Press)
June	"Blood and Beauty"	4680	Forthcoming in A.J. French's Songs of the Satyrs (Wicked East Press)
July	"Wilson's Thicket"	4200	Forthcoming in Beneath the Pretty Lies (Wicked East Press)
August	"Sixpence and Rye, and a Snake in a Pie"	2400	Forthcoming in Father Grim's Storybook (Wicked East Press)
September	"A Creature of Words"	670	Published in Avenir Eclectia
October	"A Daughter for a Daughter"	10,500	Forthcoming in Tales of Suspense (Wicked East Press)
	"Under the Bridge"	975	Published in Apollo's Lyre
November	"Soul Thief"	1015	Rewriting
	Chapter One--City of Souls	1570	Novella in progress
December	"A Fortuitous Stumble"	670	Forthcoming in Avenir Eclectia
	"The Hermit's Cache"	tbd	For Avenir Eclectia
	Chapter Two--City of Souls	tbd	Novella in progress

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