"I Like Time. There's So Little and So Much of It."

I don't like to think too far ahead. I prefer to make the best decisions I can at any moment and let the short term become the long term.

Last year, my goal was to submit unpublished stories or batches of poems to at least one market a month. As mentioned, one story took longer to revise, but I was still ahead by the numbers: twenty-one submissions and six acceptances in twelve months.

This year, I'll bump my goal up to at least two submissions a month--a challenge, but it has the side effect of keeping my name out there.