2024 wasn’t the best year for me. I was more productive by the end of the year than I thought was possible. That still doesn’t make it a good year.
Overall, I wrote over 360K words. Considering that I was only planning on 400K, and given how the year turned out, that isn’t bad.…
I am probably not going to hit my word count goal for 2020. I’ll be really close. I might end up about 20K shy. Still, 580K words for a year isn’t a bad thing. I’ll be satisfied with that. Particularly given that it was 2020.…
TLDR; made my word count for the month. Have averaged 50K per month, so 100K YTD.
Longer Version:
I stopped paying attention to my total word count for the month basically on the tenth or so. I was afraid that it would depress me too much.…
(Picture from our honeymoon last year, midway up the mountain)
The end of June marks the mid-point of the year, and a great time for reflecting on how the year has gone so far, as well as to make course corrections, as necessary.…
I’ve gotten into the habit of writing. I’m going to have to start the day job again tomorrow, but really, all I want to do is to write the next chapter of “The Guardian Hound.”
Today I finished chapter six. This week, I only have to do one more chapter to reach my goal.…
The path to finishing this week’s story has an interesting arc. (And by finished I mean the hand-written draft. I will still take tomorrow and Friday to type it up.)
I wrote the first 1000 words on Sunday. Had to run at the beginning 3 times, so it actually took me about 2 hours just for that first 1000 words.…
Wow it’s been a long time since I did one of these.
I just finished typing up chapter ten. Shorter than I wanted it to be, that’s because a lot of what I originally put in chapter ten ended up in chapter seven.…
The root canal went much better than I anticipated, which makes me really happy. I haven’t come down with an infection (and since it’s been a couple of days, I’m really hoping that I won’t, that I won’t have to go get antibiotics.)…