Category: Short Stories

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I’m a little late in updating for this week, but that’s ok.  I don’t hear any complaints.  🙂 Simply put, I crushed it.  Observe: 11,212 words, almost 50% above my 7,500 word goal for the week.  It helped that I …

2013 Writing Progress – Week 9 Read more »

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It’s been several weeks since I did an update on here.  Got some good excuses, which aren’t really excuses but reasons.  I’ll discuss them  as we go.  Ready? Ok. Week 6 I only got 2,248 words that week.  I was …

Goal Progress Update Read more »

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Well, it’s 22:19 on the 28th.  I’m just about to hit 30,000 words for the month. Not bad. But…not good enough for NaNoWriMo.  Of course, I’ve got some more writing in me tonight, so I’ll probably get to 31,000 or …

#NaNoWriMo Update – or – Why It’s Not Bad To Come Up Short Read more »

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I finished another short story tonight.  First one since the move, and since my bicycle injury.  It came in at 3,100 words and took 2.42 hours to write.  That comes out to 1284 words/hour.  Which is slower than normal for …

Finally…Another One Read more »

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Just felt the need to crow. I finished another story today: another mystery/crime tale, called Bag Man.  I started it back in March, but only got about 1,000 words down before I left for the Workshop.  I originally called it The Watery Tart, …

Another One Down Read more »