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Well I threw yesterday away. January 26th is a crumpled piece of paper with notes on it of what could have been, tossed in the general direction of a trash receptacle, and now lies next to it waiting for someone lacking apathy to come along and make the necessary effort to pick it up and make it disappear.

That’s a bit of an exaggeration. I wrote for an hour. I had a fairly low word count.

Not that I sat around and watched TV or anything, because I only walked through that room and it was off, okay? I sat down and wrote for an hour (as I mentioned), had a life insurance meeting with a salesman (that was a lengthy bit of time), and then got a call from a friend to go and do some touch-up painting on a building in Heyburn (that’s in Idaho). So I went on a short road trip and I painted. That was my day!

Word Counts

1/26/16 Word Count: 1,546 (ave. 1,546 wph) 

Hungry Gods 3 +1,546. 42,698/50,000

Pen Name Book +0. 23,073/20,000 Editing

Apocalypse Witch 3 +0. 21,648/20,000 Editing

Pen Name Short Story #2 +0. 5,361/5,000 Editing

Spilling Blood ep. 12 +0 4,672/15,000

January Word Count: 89,732

For Year: 89,732

2016 Completed Projects: Spilling Blood 11, Short Story.

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Yesterday was a productive day, as I had hoped. I’m hoping today will be better. Windows updated again, and my PC is hatin’ it. It took about an hour to get it working again afterward. I suppose if I was smart I’d turn off the auto updates, but I’m a writer and it’s all about danger. 😛

I finished Short Story #2 yesterday and it’s added to the pile of titles needing edited, which is growing alarmingly.

And finally, my word count for the year actually passed what I wrote in all of 2015. I didn’t write much last year, other than Spilling Blood Season II and Soul Sister. I hope to pass 100k this week. 😀

Word Counts

1/25/16 Word Count: 5,985 (ave. 1,823 wph) 

Hungry Gods 3 +1,711. 41,152/50,000

Pen Name Book +516. 23,073/20,000 Editing

Apocalypse Witch 3 +0. 21,648/20,000 Editing

Pen Name Short Story #2 +1,977. 5,361/5,000 Editing

Spilling Blood ep. 12 +1,781 4,672/15,000

January Word Count: 88,186

For Year: 88,186

2016 Completed Projects: Spilling Blood 11, Short Story.

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I got in an hour of writing before the day began yesterday, working on Hungry Gods and a short story. Then it was church followed by a birthday party. I’m hoping to do some serious writing output today. 🙂 I will leave a little time to edit today too.

Word Counts

1/24/16 Word Count: 1,845 (ave. 1,845 wph) 

Hungry Gods 3 +797. 39,468/50,000

Pen Name Book +0. 22,429/20,000 Editing

Apocalypse Witch 3 +0. 21,648/20,000 Editing

Spilling Blood ep. 12 +0 2,891/15,000

Pen Name Short Story #2 +1048. 3,384/5,000

January Word Count: 82,201

For Year: 82,201

2016 Completed Projects: Spilling Blood 11, Short Story.

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Welcome back to Writer’s Life, where I share my exciting adventures from the day before… that I did.. that’s usually about being a writer…. or… EXCITEMENT FROM THE CHAIR!!!

So yesterday, I slept in until 6. I got up, wrote yesterdays, Writer’s Life, delivered mail all day, came home and crashed. I. Did Not. Write.  I didn’t even show up. On my spreadsheet, I have a big ole’ 0 on my word count. 😛

I’m okay with that. (deep breaths) I’ve got to realize there will be days that just don’t work out. (more deep breaths). Am I ashamed? I’m going to lie and say NO! I’m going to hold my chin up, and write some today. As punishment, I’m going to force myself to write 10k words for the next 5 days, Monday through Friday. I’d start punishing myself today, but I’ve got shit to do. But I can’t write about that until tomorrow, because I’m talking about yesterday.

Word Counts

1/23/16 Word Count: 0 (ave. 0 wph) 

Hungry Gods 3 +0. 38,671/50,000

Pen Name Book +0. 22,429/20,000 Editing

Apocalypse Witch 3 +0. 21,648/20,000 Editing

Spilling Blood ep. 12 +0 2,891/15,000

Pen Name Short Story #2 +0. 2,336/5,000

January Word Count: 80,356

For Year: 80,356

2016 Completed Projects: Spilling Blood 11, Short Story.

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Yesterday was just one of those days where I wrote just to say I showed up. I actually got up very early (2:30 am), and spent most of the morning marketing. I finally sat down to write and I got a call from the Post Office. I work part time for the postal service, which is basically every Saturday. Then other post offices around the valley call me if they are short. That’s what I did yesterday. It’s not a bad thing, but like I said, my valuable writing time went to marketing. And I’m writing this on a Saturday, so my goal is to find another half hour or so to write this afternoon, and then make up the word count starting on Sunday.

Last night my kids had a Halo party. When I came home, there were 16+ kids around 4 tv’s and xbox’s. It’s now 6:30 am, and there’s still a few kids. Therefore I didn’t get up early enough to do any writing, except to check in here with my numbers. 🙂

Word Counts

1/22/16 Word Count: 1,080 (ave. 2,160 wph) 

Hungry Gods 3 +1,080. 38,671/50,000

Pen Name Book +0. 22,429/20,000 Editing

Apocalypse Witch 3 +0. 21,648/20,000 Editing

Spilling Blood ep. 12 +0 2,891/15,000

Pen Name Short Story #2 +0. 2,336/5,000

January Word Count: 80,356

For Year: 80,356

2016 Completed Projects: Spilling Blood 11, Short Story.

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Week 3 Update

Week 3 of 2016 begins today and I’m somewhere near where I want to be with my writing. I’m at 79,000 words for January (and the year), averaging 3,700 words per day for the month, and am wrapping up quite a few projects I’ve been working on for a long time (a few for years). I will hit about 117,000 words for the month at my current pace.

With this being the last full week of the month, my goals are to finish Hungry Gods 3 (at least by the 31st), finish editing 2 books (one of which is Apocalypse Witch 3), and write 1 more short story. Then I can cross January off and start thinking about February.

I will try to release Apocalypse Witch 3 this week. 🙂

On a final note, with Spilling Blood ep. 11 released this week, I have begun writing Spilling Blood ep. 12.

Word Counts

1/21/16 Word Count: 3,699 (ave. 1,727 wph) 

Hungry Gods 3 +1,411. 37,598/50,000

Pen Name Book +244. 22,429/20,000 Editing

Apocalypse Witch 3 +0. 21,648/20,000 Editing

Spilling Blood ep. 12 +896 2,891/15,000

Pen Name Short Story #2 +1,148. 2,336/5,000

January Word Count: 79,276

For Year: 79,276

2016 Completed Projects: Spilling Blood 11, Short Story.

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Yesterday I worked on Hungry Gods 3, started my second short story for the month, finished the first draft of Apocalypse Witch 3, and did a little editing. I have now passed the 75k mark for the month. I’m now writing more than 25k a week. Last week I set a goal for myself to reach an average of writing 4k a day, and I’m not there yet, but I’m going to be pretty close by this weekend.

My computer didn’t crash yesterday, so I’m happy about that. Hopefully it’s got that out of its system. And I watched the first episode of Orphan Black Season 3. Oh, I drank loads of coffee. True story.

EDITING

So I see a big challenge arising because of my output. I need to make real time for editing. I don’t know how much time I realistically need to set aside for this task to get books released in a timely manner. In the past, the answer was give all the time, until the book was complete. That doesn’t work for me now.

So to start, I’m going to go at an hour at a time, and see how many words I get through. I’ll start a new spreadsheet to track this, and it’ll be more data for this page. This will give me an idea of how long it’s going to take before the book sees the light of day.

Note to self – this is something I should do with marketing too.

Word Counts

1/20/16 Word Count: 5,917 (ave. 2,064 wph) 

Hungry Gods 3 +1,862. 36,327/50,000

Pen Name Book +327. 22,185/20,000 Editing

Apocalypse Witch 3 +2,544. 21,648/20,000 Editing

Pen Name Short Story #2 +1,184. 1,184/5,000

January Word Count: 75,577

For Year: 75,577

2016 Completed Projects: Spilling Blood 11, Short Story.

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