The 2011 Harvest

Several years back I began compiling a timeline of what writing projects I was working on. It’s always interesting to see how much builds up over time, and it’s easy to keep up with–just note the start and stop dates. But I was struck by how much writing I did in 2011, which also saw my self-publishing my novella The First Twenty Steps on PubIt and Kindle Direct Publishing, and the acceptance of the first three novels of my Jack Commer science fiction series, The Martian Marauders, Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, and Nonprofit Chronowar, by Double Dragon Publishing. Although I had a two art shows in 2011 at Dallas libraries (a January sculpture exhibit at Park Forest Library and an August exhibit of huge paintings at the Renner Frankford Library), writing has definitely pushed visual art into the background over the past year. Not that this will be a permanent state, but I’m reassessing my approach to visual art now. Meanwhile, here’s the harvest of 2011:

12/19/10-1/1/11	The First Twenty Steps: revision and MS. print
1/4/11-1/7/11	Oliver: scan, corrections, and MS. print (includes introduction)
1/15/11-1/16/11	“Chapter 32”: scan, corrections, and MS. print
1/18/11-5/12/11	Seven of Cups/Beyond DamnStar (now Collapse and Delusion): Draft 1
1/22/11-1/26/11	“Tollhouse”: scan, corrections, and MS. print
1/23/11-1/24/11	“Tollhouse – Introduction”
1/28/11	The First Twenty Steps: published on PubIt
1/28/11-2/1/11	“Where Eagles Have Unfortunately Landed”: scan, corrections, and MS. print
1/28/11-2/4/11	“Damage Patrol”: scan, corrections, and MS. print
1/28/11-1/31/11	“Alan Ice on Morningcide Drive”: scan, corrections, and MS. print
1/28/11-2/3/11	“The Highland Park Cadillac Races”: scan, corrections, and MS. print
1/28/11-2/3/11	“The 66,000 M.P.H. Bicycle”: scan, corrections, and MS. print
2/4/11	“The 66,000 M.P.H. Bicycle – Introductory Notes”
2/6/11-2/10/11	“The 20 Steps Blog Post”
2/9/11	Bullshit Poet #2: Resurrection: scan, corrections, and MS. print
2/9/11	Bullshit Poet #3: The Zen of Cat: scan, corrections, and MS. print
2/11/11-2/16/11	Oliver the Giant Cat #6: Seeds of Sunshine: scan, corrections, and MS. print
2/12/11-2/13/11	Oliver the Giant Cat #5: Spasm of Terror: keying in and MS. print
2/14/11-2/18/11	Oliver the Giant Cat #7: Continuation!: scan, corrections, and MS. print
2/14/11-2/18/11	Oliver the Giant Cat #8: Librarians, You’ll Never Get Me: creation of final version from 1995 MS., notes, with new introduction and MS. print
2/26/11-3/6/11	“Literary Success”
3/5/11-3/13/11	“Dystopias—and I’ve Written my Share”
3/14/11	The Martian Marauders: accepted for publication by Double Dragon Publishing
3/18/11	The First Twenty Steps: edits and upload to PubIt
3/22/11-3/27/11	“An Introduction to Synthetic Thinking”: scan, edits, and MS.
3/22/11-3/27/11	“Intro to Intro” (introduction to “Synthetic Thinking”)
4/10/11-4/11/11	“The Story of Lester Quartz’s Fantastic Journey, Volume 1” (essay about the graphic novel)
4/27/11-5/1/11	Jack Commer, Supreme Commander: title change dropping “USSF” and minor edits to content
4/29/11-5/2/11	Nonprofit Ladies (now Nonprofit Chronowar): minor edits to content
5/2/11	Jack Commer, Supreme Commander and Nonprofit Ladies (now Nonprofit Chronowar): accepted for publication by Double Dragon Publishing
5/17/11-5/21/11	“Update on the Blog”
5/19/11-5/26/11	“Helium Street”: scan, edits, and MS.
5/19/11-	Akard Draft I: scan project begun. Initial manuscript pulled together 7/15/11, but a final edit remains to be made.
5/21/11-5/27/11	“Helium Street – Introduction”
5/23/11-5/27/11	“Akard Draft I Introduction Before the Undertaking”
5/23/11-	“Akard I – Introduction Diary”
5/23/11-7/17/11	“Akard Draft 1 – Introduction”
6/29/11-7/9/11	The Holy Dark Ages: reformatted and MS. print
7/26/11	“The Martian Holes”: scan and MS. print
7/26/11-7/28/11	“Emerson’s Vast Hotel”: scan and MS. print
7/31/11	Executed Beauty title changed to The Psychobeauty (formerly Awesome Beauty of This Earth, then Odd Planetary Beauty, then Executed Beauty)
8/1/11-8/5/11	The Soul Institute: preparation for Draft 5
8/5/11-9/14/11	The Soul Institute: Draft 5
8/18/11-8/19/11	“What Does Your Muse Think of Your Writing Career?”
8/21/11	The Fifty First State of Consciousness: reformatting to 1 file and current format (no print)
8/21/11	Nova Scotia: reformatting to 1 file and current format (no print)
8/22/11-8/27/11	“Homage to the Wiess Cracks”
9/10/11-9/11/11	February 1972 Letter: corrections to scan, introduction, and print
9/14/11-9/16/11	The Soul Institute: MS. and single-spaced Times New Roman 10 print
9/16/11-10/18/11	“The Soul Institute” (essay)
9/1711-9/18/11	“Novels Inventory, September 2011”
10/1/11-	Sortmind: new notes for novel updating
10/8/11-11/9/11	Akard Drearstone: notes, revision, and single-spaced Times New Roman 10 print
1/26/11-12/26/11	Seven of Cups/Beyond DamnStar (now Collapse and Delusion): Draft 2
12/30/11	The Martian Marauders edits for Double Dragon Publishing

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