In today’s Journal
* Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting
* The Writing
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting
For notes on the Bradbury Challenge, please see yesterday’s post.
The challenge is a great way to jumpstart your writing and get more practice pushing down the critical voice. Writing fiction is all about conveying the story. It isn’t about words.
There’s no cost. There’s also no pressure re submitting or publishing. That’s up to you.
During the past week, in addition to whatever other fiction they’re writing, the following writers reported their progress:
Short Fiction
Balázs Jámbor “Manuscript” 4500 Generic fiction
Balázs Jámbor “Tell me an idea!” 2500 Generic fiction
Christopher Ridge “Pig” 2400 Horror
K.C. Riggs “Don’t Question a God” 923 Satire
Longer Fiction
Balázs Jámbor *Kylen’s Story* (tentative title) 4000 Fantasy
Alexander Nakul *The Meerkat Watch* 4418 Urban fantasy (10479 total to date)
The Writing
I’m a bit under the weather. This is the third day. Still, I made my word count today, if only by 95 words. I had to keep taking breaks and coming back, but I was tired of not making the word count. (grin)
I’m hoping I’ll be back up into 4000+ word days soon.
Also I’ve been keeping track separately in the numbers of fiction I’ve written since August 1. But somewhere along the line I omitted a numeral.
So yesterday I recounted. I pulled up my Production Spreadsheet and summed the fiction totals for August, September, October and thu far through November.
Since I started writing fervently again on August 1, I’ve written 271,230 words of fiction. That’s 70% of the fiction I’ve written all year. THAT feels good. (grin) The numbers do build up when you love what you’re doing.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
Words fail us, and this writer knows it. How she is bringing people to the (grammar) table Take the little one-question quiz in the post. If you choose 2, you know the difference between “that” and “which.”
Helpful Writing Advice from the Pros
The Numbers
The Journal……………………………… 330
Writing of Blackwell Ops 14: Charlie Task
Day 1…… 1359 words. To date…… 1359
Day 2…… 3002 words. To date…… 4361
Day 3…… 3349 words. To date…… 7710
Day 4…… 1687 words. To date…… 9397
Day 5…… 2271 words. To date…… 11668
Day 6…… 3095 words. To date…… 14763
Fiction for November…………………… 67131
Fiction for 2023…………………………. 385775
Fiction since August 1………………… 271230
Nonfiction for November……………… 24560
Nonfiction for the year……………… 252450
Annual consumable words………… 634718
2023 Novels to Date……………………… 8
2023 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2023 Short Stories to Date……………… 7
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………… 79
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 9
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)…… 235
Short story collections…………………… 31
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