Fashionably late, huh! It’s been on my to-do list this entire time, really! Just been hella busy with stuff.
This past year, I’ve published…
- 3 original pieces of fiction!
- 8 reprints!
- 1 guest blog!
- …and 1 op-ed thing!
I was really surprised by the number of reprints, actually. But they’re a great way to get more people to see your story ð
I wrote a lot, and finished/started submitting 11. Most were flash fiction, but there were 4 longer pieces. I also took part in a flash writing contest, so that helped generate a lot of stuff, too.
And now! Submission stats!
For some context on the table below…
- Some submissions were from 2023 and only resolved in 2024, or got acceptances in 2023 before being published in 2024, so numbers in a row might not perfectly add up.
- Stories are listed in the order they were written
- Full titles are only given for stories that were officially announced/published; otherwise they’re given a short hand for identification
- Submissions are for both originals and reprints of a piece
| Story | Length | Subs | Rejections1 | Withdrawals2 | Acceptances | Publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aphelion | 2,900 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MOVE X TO Y2K | 1,500 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moth{er} | 2,700 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Carcinographic Classifieds | 940 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| The Application of Lycanthropy as a Novel Treatment for Gender Dysphoria | 967 | 30 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
| I Saw a Dead Body Today | 737 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Fox and the Unicorns | 1,500 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| How to Survive a Draconic Business Takeover | 2,500 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Subsume | 429 | 33 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| ðð | 9,300 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| An Atomic Fairy Tale | 1,200 | 19 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| ððŧ | 1,800 | 30 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ðĶð | 1,000 | 29 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ððŧ | 992 | 41 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ðð§Đ | 4,100 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Prince and the Mage | 3,900 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| ðŧð | 3,900 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ð§ââïļð° | 933 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ð | 100 | 62 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ð―ðĄ | 6,500 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| âĻðŠī | 414 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| ðŪð | 538 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ððĪ | 939 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ðð | 999 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 50,788 | 392 | 330 | 41 | 15 | 11 |
2: Submissions I voluntarily removed from consideration before the market could make a decision, such as if a story has been accepted elsewhere, or the vibes were off.
That’s a lot!
Time for math!
- 392 submissions were sent, and 330 rejections were received, which leaves us with a 84.2% rejection rate
- This is an increase from 66.5% from last year, mostly because there were less withdrawn submissions
- With 15 acceptances, that means a 3.83% acceptance rate!
- This is an increase from the 3.41% from last year
- I sent twice as many submissions compared to last year, and got 2.5 times as many acceptances!
That’s very cool!
In conclusion:
I left the Windows ecosystem, so my graphing capabilities are a lot less good, but also I think getting super-granular into the weeds isn’t very helpful. Having a big-picture view of the data is good and helps me grasp my progress, but there’s a lot of data points I could pull, but wouldn’t be very meaningful.
That’s something to keep in mind when you track your own writing! Is knowing how many words you write a day going to motivate you, or overwhelm you? What metrics do you care about? For me, I want to have an overview of submitting so that I can see progress is being made.
