The Great Challenge – Week 29

Week 29 of The Great Challenge with Dean went pretty smoothly. More success, and I actually got the story to him with a few hours to spare! Shocker, right?

The only wrinkle was NaNoWriMo started up on Friday, and I determined to join in this year in order to finally finish (or at least come close to finishing) Warfare Qualified, the first of the Incaran Confederation Navy series that I’m been dorking around with for…2 years? Something like that. Bad focus in 2017 and 2018 led to almost no progress on it. I made some good progress earlier this year, then got distracted by moving and divorce finalization stuff and…well you know.

Anyway, it’s time to get back to it. We’ll see how it goes, doing both weekly stories and the novel. But I’ve won NaNo a couple times before, so I know it’s doable.

I am off to a slow start, though. Behind the curve by a fair amount as of tonight. But that’s ok. There’s plenty of time to catch up, and I write at a pretty good rate when I actually got off my duff and do it. 😉

But anyway, here are the stories from the Great Challenge 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
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
25. Playing For Scraps – Science Fiction – 5,307 words
26. Terran New Year – Scifi/Romance – 3,103 words
27. Santa Fe Station – Mystery/Crime – 5,486 words
28. Finding Bobby Jenkins – Science Fiction – 7,552 words
29. Warden’s Trial – Sword and Sorcery – 3,790 words

That brings it to 148,600 words total for this challenge, and 186,487 words for the year over the span of 95.38 hours (1,955.13 words/hr on average).

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