The middle of the year (by count of days) is this coming weekend.

I wonder if I can get four more short story submissions sent off before then? Because that would bring me equal to my total number of submissions for the whole of 2014.

Counting like that is a silly thing, but it helps to keep me motivated.

(I’ve also had fewer rejections, and twice as many sales. But since that’s two sales rather than one, you can see why I need to keep up my motivation somehow.)