The Great Challenge – Week 24

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I’ve been slacking on telling you guys how The Great Challenge with Dean is going.

Long story short: still crushing it. The last two weeks I got the stories in right at the deadline. But I got them in. 24 weeks in a row, now.

Behold:

  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
  18. Moonstruck – Fantasy/Horror – 4,683 words
  19. Wire Runs – Science Fiction – 2,119 words
  20. Miss Melody And The Knight Gallant – Fantasy – 5,573 words
  21. Lost Credit – Fantasy/Sword And Sorcery – 4,407 words
  22. 22. Hunting For Game – Mystery/Crime – 2,474 words
  23. Caledonia – Science Fiction/Horror – 4,870 words
  24. Love In The Apocalypse – Science Fiction/Horror – 3,389 words

That brings it to 123,362 words total for this challenge, and 161,249 words for the year over the span of 83.43 hours (1,932.67 words/hr on average).

So things continue to go well. Two more stories and I get some bonus $ toward more workshops. Sweet.

I’m actually pondering whether or not to start The Great Novel Challenge as well, to push myself harder and get my writing up to an even higher level. The point of that challenge is to write a 40k+ novel every two months for a year, and for max rewards get Dean the paperback within a month of completion.

I could totally do that at the same time as this short story challenge. It’s only another 20k words/month – that’s 10-12 hours more typing time per month for me, at the pace I tend to write.

I was planning to shift to that challenge after finishing this one. But I’m at the point where I simply can’t bring myself to not write the week’s story. So maybe it’s time to start now, a bit ahead of schedule.

But that would be crazy, right?

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