I’ve just finished the first phase of planning my submissions for next year. So far I have 53 submissions in the planner, and I haven’t quite finished. I will have about 75 by the time I have finished. No doubt I’ll miss a few, but you need some sort of target, and it should always be slightly more than you think you can achieve.
Set a target too low and it’s not worth having. Set it too high and you risk demotivating yourself. Last year I made 48 submissions, though I was ill for a couple of months and would have managed around 55 if i’d been fit. Seventy five for this year seems fair as a target. I still need to add a couple of magazines that always reject me (I need a challenge) and some ordinary poetry magazines too. Life isn’t all about Japanese forms of poetry.
It feels good to have the plan done, even if it is incomplete. At last I have something to compare myself to, and it’s always easier to work when you have a framework in place. Without one, it’s easy to drift.
When I look at the actual figures, I see that I met or slightly exceeded the targets for numbers of acceptances last year, being on target for haibun and a few over for haiku. I also wrote a few tanka, which weren’t included in the targets, as I hadn’t even thought of writing tanka when I set the targets. Then there were the six “normal” poems. There is no target for them as I just fit them in when I have time and they aren’t a particularly high priority.
It seems all is going well, a good sign. 🙂
On another note, I experienced a problem with the WordPress reader yesterday when trying to reply. When I hit the “reply” button and start typing in the box, WP will try to redirect me somewhere when I hit the “k” key when typing. I think some kind of malware has been injected into WP code. I can get around it by typing my reply into a text editor, then cutting and pasting it into the reply box. That works, so far. The redirect also seems to reset the post “Like” button.
It’s annoying when these things develop. I’m having trouble with the Like button but thought it was jsut my ineptitude. I will take more notice.
It is also now happening with the “j” key as of tonight.
Oh dear, it’s spreading . . .
It only happens in the WP Reader. Apparently I am not the only one having a problem.
Here is the problem ticket I opened, and their response:
https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/wordpress-reader-34
Annoying, but some comfort to know you aren’t the only one.
The future is looking good
It’s certainly looking better! 🙂
Nice that you got your focus back.
🙂 Thank you.
Is there room to squeeze in a few Limericks to amuse your readers?
I may have a go – it’s amazing what crops up once I get going. 🙂 I’m still thinking of the future of the limerbun. Not sure if it has a place in the over-serious academic world of hauibun and such things. 🙂
I would like to read a limerbun.
I had better get writing then. 🙂
Excellent! Always good to have a plan.
It is. 🙂