Fantasy, Horror and Sci-Fi. Oh my!

Just when I thought I had run out of paying markets for the planner, I happened upon Locus, a journal that reviews speculative fiction journals which expanded my knowledge of available paying markets. Speculative Fiction Speculative fiction includes: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Horror, Slipstream, Weird, Bizarro, and more. Curious what slipstream is?Continue reading “Fantasy, Horror and Sci-Fi. Oh my!”

Here Comes February – The first week of planner pages

Today’s the day! I organized all of the pages of my planner that I’ve created so far into one file and am actually posting it for you when I said I would. Yay! I find it fitting and poetic that I also received my first rejection of the year this morning! How great is that?Continue reading “Here Comes February – The first week of planner pages”

The Deadlines: Collecting and organizing

I made a breakthrough over the weekend. I entered the information I’ve been collecting about different literary magazines and their reading windows into a spreadsheet. Now I can easily sort all of the reading periods by deadlines and what month I want to include them in my planner. I also added spreadsheet pages for contests,Continue reading “The Deadlines: Collecting and organizing”

Realistic Goal Setting vs. Creative Chaos

The Chaos Moments after I published my last post with realistic reading goals that I would put in my planner for January, I went to the library and checked out twenty-five books that were not on that list. I’m glad I did. There’s nothing wrong with my reading gluttony. I should not have imagined IContinue reading “Realistic Goal Setting vs. Creative Chaos”