The Great Challenge – Week 17

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Another week of…wait for it…success.

Yep, still going strong on The Great Challenge with Dean. I spent last week up in Vegas, as a proof of concept for a new living/working arrangement I have in mind as part of my get-the-hell-out-of-California-before-the-collapse plan. Looks like that arrangement will work out pretty well.

Now I just need to square away a couple residual financial things from the divorce and I’ll be ready to start putting plan into action. Deliberately, of course. No huge rush.

Anyway, even though I was up in that awesome location, I managed to keep my focus and get at least the one story done last week. Should have written more, to be frank. But in addition to day job work I was exploring, getting a feel for neighborhoods, things like that. So I’ll forgive myself for only having written 5,444 words in the week.

Here’s the tally of challenge stories so far.

  1. Red Orchid – Romance – 3,800 words
  2. Debts And Obligations – Sword and Sorcery – 14,200 words
  3. Naughty And Nice – Modern Fantasy – 4,800 words
  4. Popper’s – Mystery – 4,100 words
  5. The Case Of The Missing Rocker – SciFi/Mystery – 7,200 words
  6. Fences And Neighbors – Post-Apocalyptic – 4,800 words
  7. Give A Dog A Bone – Doggy Mystery – 3,200 words
  8. Untitled – Romance – 5,300 words
  9. Lost On Cordant Station – Science Fiction – 8,560 words
  10. Kicking The Anthill – Urban Fantasy/Adventure – 3,863 words
  11. VIP Treatment – Modern Fantasy – 6,012 words
  12. A Man Of Faith – Religious/Supernatural Thriller Maybe? – 9,013 words
  13. Abe’s Liquors – Romantic Suspense – 2,951 words
  14. Cave Diving For Dummies – Sea Story/Suspense – 3,491 words
  15. Work Release – Science Fiction – 4,910 words
  16. Miss Melody And The Elf Spa – Fantasy – 4,175 words
  17. Joyride To The Moon – YA Science Fiction – 5,444 words

That brings it to 95,844 words total for this challenge, and 133,731 words for the year over the span of 70 hours (1,910.44 words/hr on average).

If anyone cares, I’m averaging 5,638 words per story in the challenge so far. Decent length for short fiction, I suppose.

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