Write 1/Sub 1 is not only effective but addictive

If my records are correct, May 2018 was the first month in a year and a half that I did not submit a story to at least one call for submissions (the original Write 1/Sub 1 called for one story submission a week, but that seemed a little excessive). I’d found myself lagging to meet my goals in April, and even though I had spotted some likely May calls, I decided it would be worth passing them up and taking some time to rest, maybe catch up on my stacks of books–including some research for further stories.

Well, I didn’t catch up on my reading list (I approximately halved the pile of books, though, from ~60 to ~30). I accomplished some other things, like taking back weekends after getting most of my freelance editing work done Monday-Friday, and attended WisCon. But when I sat down this weekend to start writing something again for the call I took note of for this month, it was revitalizing. I hadn’t realized how much I missed it, and had forgotten what a pleasure it can be to sit down and string some words together, sentence after sentence, a scene at a time. It’s also pretty wonderful to have written, to know I have a few thousand words behind me that make the month feel justified.

So I think I’m going to keep doing that for another year and a half at least.

As it happens, May was also the month when I received four different story acceptances. One of the most exciting is one I can announce now: a piece in Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Vol 3 edited by Sacchi Green and scheduled for release on December 11!