Hey Folks,
Another note on process. Despite the word count I posted earlier for The Keeper of the Promise: The Origin Novel, after omitting the two short stories I mentioned yesterday, and after a few thousand words of other cuts, the novel finally came in yesterday at 56620 words.
Last night as I glanced over it, I realized it was mostly complete and flows well. The one thing I didn’t do was set up the protagonist as a series character with a lead-in to the next books. Not good, since I wrote the thing in the first place to lead into a series.
This morning in a quick session, I added a scant 453 words to the manuscript to plug that hole. Then I cut another 103 words. Now it is finished and off to my first reader.
Of Interest
See “Social Media Strategies for Authors” at http://blog.smashwords.com/2018/01/social-media-strategies-for-authors.html. I kind of wish they’d offer a print version, but I think this is a podcast.
See Dean’s “Fun Idea From Vegas” (it’s much more than it seems) at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/fun-idea-from-vegas/.
And for just a little common sense in our Bizzaro nation, see “Buffalo Bill and the Indians” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2018/01/buffalo-bill-and-the-indians/.
Fiction Words: 0453
Nonfiction Words: 210 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 663
Writing of (working title)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 381563
Total fiction words for the year………… 38156
Total nonfiction words for the month… 7080
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 7080
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 45236
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 1
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 28
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182