Next Round o' Submissions

I tend to submit my stories to online magazines and literary journals in one big “round” of energy and optimism. Then I sit back for a few weeks (months) until I can muster up the courage and enough stamps to do it again. It’s been almost three months since my last round of submissions. Last time I submitted to 14 publications, got 3 rejection letters, and 11 no-answers. Makes it hard to go back in for another round. I think what I really need is to establish a more persistent routine for submissions, and impose some deadlines on myself. Right now it’s definitely a “when I get around to it” kind of thing. So I am now amending my April goals to add in this one: devote significant time each weekend to actually preparing another story for submission. The goal is to have something ready by summer!