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January Writing Report
by January Writing Results A light word count for the month of a little less than 18k words, but a lot of editing done. That doesn’t always (or even usually) produce a large word count, and I track that by net change to put a number on it. That net change doesn’t tell you much about the effort involved in an editing session, though. Still, I feel like the month worked out well overall. January accomplishments: Starting the 3rd Draft of the Troll World Quintet, at the end of the month, I was about a quarter of the way through Book 2. This is the heavy lifting draft for this…
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Writing Report for January 2019
by A good beginning to the writing year: 31 writing days out of a possible 31. Accomplishments in January: Welkiri Corps: now coming in at 39,443 words, and I think it’s going to just tick 50k by the time I’m done, although it might be a little lower. I seem to be careening towards the end point right now. Battlefield: just broke the 43k mark today (43,352). Currently forecasting a 77k first draft, which is tighter than usual for a first draft plot for me, drifting only 5k from the original 72k estimate with the 25th (of 46) chapter almost complete. Editing: finished the final draft of Hero’s Life. Hopefully…
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Writing Report – January 2014
by This is going to be quicker than usual, I think. Way too much going on. Major WIP The Godhead, Book 1 26,181 words written of 30,000 target. A clean miss, but a pretty good number. I’m also no longer projecting this as a 90k novel, but 100k. Surprise. Novelette Project “A Gathering of Heroes” 3rd of the 4 novelettes, complete at 22,031 words of an originally projected 15,000. Interesting how that works. This makes exactly one of the 4 novelettes that’s actually fallen into novelette count. Not this one, obviously. “Company of the Dead” 4th of the 4 novelettes, complete at 7,711 words written of a projected 15,000. And…
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January Writing Update
by So, as promised, here’s the first Writing Update for 2013, covering the month of January. Total Words of New Fiction: 15,740 Of which 6798 were in Dreams of Freedom. Considering the goal was 20,000, that’s not all that impressive, however more on that in a minute. 1021 were the first half of a new scene in Warforge: Caledonia. The remaining 7,921 words went into “Klaatu Barada Nikto, Baby!” and a Warforge short story tentatively titled “Closing Time”. Neither of these stories are actually complete at this point and the overall word count left me 604 words short on this month’s short fiction goal. On the editing side of things:…
