Friday Done List January 9

Goal 1. Write and Publish Adult Short Stories, Essays, and Humor

• Added a new publication to the marketing spreadsheet. This one I'll consider for a submission later this month.
• Worked on an eating essay. Some baking and picture taking and some actual writing. 
• Finished the last essay I believe I'll be doing on my Heritage Month Project. 
• Submitted the above essay. It was rejected, because I used external links to support my points, and they only accept links to other articles from their publication. My first thought was, How unprofessional! My second thought was, This is how they control publishing essays with links to freak sites. I understand. I removed the links and resubmitted.
• Listened to Hillery Stone's Ted-ish talk on writing essays. She said a number of things about personal essays I already believe, so, of course, I liked the talk. I'd been looking forward to listening to it for a while, and it was well-worth my time. Relatively short, too. 
• Published a link to Mountain Lake Resorts on BlueSky, because it's getting to be that time of year. I'll be taking off soon for my reading and woods walking retreat, and MLR is a humor piece related to that experience.
• Attended a terrific OCWW workshop run by author Joseph Scapellato. A number of takeaways including...do multiple submissions for literary journals! Of course, this means having multiple literary journal markets appropriate to submit to. So, I'll be doing some lit journal reading on my reading and woods walking retreat.

Goal 2. Build Community/Market Work/Brand Myself and My Work

• Wrote an unplanned blog post on marketing. This was one of those I'm-blown-away-by-what-I-just-read-and-have-to-write-about-it-things that doesn't happen as often as it used to.