The Journal, Saturday, 9/2

Hey Folks,

Well, the story I started yesterday will definitely be a short story, though longer than my usual short story. My short stories are usually around 3,000 words. This one will come in probably at around 5,000 or 6,000.

It might also expand into a novel, but right now it’s about one event. So a short story.

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Finally checked Dean’s site (it’s not quite noon here) and I am stymied. See “Short Story Finished” at http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/short-story-finished/. Uncanny. Some of the parallels between his writing world and mine are just eerie at the moment.

He wrote “only 25,000 words of fiction” in August due to life intervening. I wrote not quite 17,000.

He decided to make September 1 “a new start.” I did the same thing. He doesn’t track his numbers like I do, but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn he wrote 3212 words of fiction on his story to finish it.

Of course, he had a banner month in July. I haven’t had a 100,000-word month this year. But I probably will if I make my goals for the rest of the year.

Today and Writing

I planned to get up at 2 or 3 this morning. I figure on weekends I want to get up a little earlier than I have been recently so I can get some writing done before the world comes to life.

I rolled out at 3:30. There wasn’t a lot of email or FB stuff, so I still got some writing done on the story early.

When I realized “Salvatore” was going to be a short story I moved a couple things around in it. My rust is really showing. I cycled back through the whole thing, moved a few things around and added a lot that I missed in the initial writing.

Took a break for a shopping trip to pick up a lot of odds and ends that don’t make it onto the weekly list.

Back tomorrow.

Of Interest

Just the thing about Dean above.

Fiction Words: 3869
Nonfiction Words: 340 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 4209

Writing of “Salvatore” (working title, short story)

Day 1…… 3212 words. Total words to date…… 3212
Day 2…… 3869 words. Total words to date…… 7081 (done)

Total fiction words for the month……… 7081
Total fiction words for the year………… 386701
Total nonfiction words for the month… 820
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 137220
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 523921

The Daily Journal blog streak……………………………………… 644 days
Calendar Year 2017 Novel Goal (15 novels or novellas)………………… 8 novels or novellas
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 26
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 181