So I promised to write one new short story and submit a story (new or old--not sure) every month for the year. My new January story came in response to an NPR 3-minute fiction call past mid-month. I wrote a short short/flash on 01/18, revised it and submitted it 2 days later. My write1sub1 challenge for the month was complete! But I went ahead and submitted an older story to three new markets the same day anyway. Just because. And then I figured, since I'd subbed 2, I'd make January a write2sub2 month--especially since I wanted to make Glimmer Train's standard submission cut-off date. I thought and thought, brainstormed and brainstormed and as usual, had plenty of ideas, but didn't know where to go with them.
Then suddenly at around 2am in the early morning of 01/27, one week after the 'big' submission day on 01/20, a story came and told me it had a direction. I worked on it for about 3 days, and was able to submit it on time to count for this month, and make GT's January deadline.
So that's a total of 5 submissions for the month! I'm very happy about it since it's 3 stories to 5 markets instead of just one story submitted to 5. Definitely a good start for me.
Now, I have to find similar impetuses for February I guess; I had NPR and Glimmer Train driving me in January.
