short story census

I have made a good start on "Kingspeaker," which is the story I hope to finish this month. (For those unaware, the goal is to write a minimum of one short story a month. It's an eminently reasonable goal; let's see if that helps me meet it. My short story output has been crap of late.) The beginning is going well. Unfortunately, soon I will run out of beginning, whcih means I need to figure out how to put into the story that thing that needs to go into the story.

The goal is also to get one new short story sent out every month. Since I have a small backlog of things I've been meaning to revise for a while (in some cases, for years), this means the newly-written stories will have time to get beautified before they go out in public. All in all, it sounds like a good system. Hopefully it will work.

First lines of the stories that need revision:

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First lines from stories in progress, that I may someday finish:

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There are other "I hope I'll finish them" stories, but none of them have even snippets written yet; things like "Schrodinger's Crone" and "Double Woman Dreamer" and "The Three Hackbutters." Many of these, unsurprisingly, need research. But one short story a month (minimum) means I'll get twelve done this year, so that should make a dent in the stack at last.