Week 16 — Year of Short Stories 2026

2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the week of Apr. 20-26. Stats Stories Finished: 2 Submissions Currently Out: 6 Submissions Total: 15 Rejections: 13 Acceptances: 0 Goals and Results Last week’s goals: Revise F-TIB. Write Arbor Grove. More critiques. The stories that were out remain out. I received no responses and sent no new submissions. Critiques are going well and I’m comfortably ahead again. I continue to make progress on Arbor Grove, although the middle has been muddier and slower than I would like, and as a result I am still a few days behind on my word count. It feels like it’s going to need some trimming when it’s done. Despite putting F-TIB at top priority last week, I didn’t actually work on revisions that much. I did ruminate on changes and parts that don’t quite feel right, but that doesn’t tend to feel as productive as fingers-on-keyboard work, even if it is sometimes a…