Write 1 Sub 1 is the brainchild of Milo James Fowler, Simon Kewin and Stephen V. Ramey, who are an all-around talented and inspiring bunch of guys. The idea is to adopt Ray Bradbury’s early method of writing a story a week and sending it out. There are options for those who want to adapt the plan to fit their needs, such as a story a month, a story every two weeks, or even other variations. The point is to regularly produce work and submit it.

I decided to do this around January 25th or 26th, so the week 1-3 stories were written in the 4th week, along with the week 4 story. That also helps explain why the first two are Twitter-length. I decided that if I could actually catch up and complete 4 stories by the end of January, regardless of length, I’d give it a go. Accepted stories will be linked to the proper pages as they appear.

Stats:

Total submissions:
Jan: 4 | Feb 4 | Mar: 37 | Apr: 4 | May: 7 | Jun: 17 | Jul: 10 | Aug: 10 | Sep: 1

Written in 2011: 43

Micro: 8 | Flash: 12 | Short Story: 22 | Novella: 0.70% | Non-Fiction Humor: 1

Acceptances in 2011: 27
Of those, 16 were written in 2011

Monthly recap posts:

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July

September was pretty much the end for me, thanks to an emergency move and lots of related issues. I’m a little bummed that I didn’t make it the whole year, but I submitted 94 times, and 27 of those times, the people I sent things to liked them enough to keep ‘em. I wrote about 43 new things, submitted 25 of them, and had 16 of those new stories accepted for publication. Most of the old stuff I polished off and sent out ended up between pages somewhere. If I were anything but pleased, I’d be a little cracked.

Pre-2011 stories revised and subbed:

Poetry and other submissions that don’t count in W1S1 stats: