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A Planned Miss

I Has Been Hoping…

I had on my schedule a planned miss tonight, knowing there would be too much to do and I would be too tired since the Fantasy workshop ended today here at the coast. But since I have had two unplanned misses, I had been hoping to actually be able to do a story tonight.

Nope. The planning was accurate.

So now I have five missed days and nine days to do 14 stories. Well, that will be fun. (grin)

Not at all impossible, but certainly interesting.

So going to keep this short tonight since I have webinars to have fun with tomorrow morning.

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IF YOU MISSED THE COAST WORKSHOP MOVE ANNOUNCEMENT…

All the details we have right now are in a couple posts below this one. Both the Master Business Class in October and the Anthology workshop will be moving to the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. I will be contacting everyone already signed up in the next week.

Still room in both workshops. Write me with questions.

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Day One… Scared Money… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 2,700 words.
Day Two… Rainbow Peak… 4,900 words…. Total April words… 7,600 words.
Day Three… A Beautiful History… 2,300 words…. Total April words… 9,900 words.
Day Four… A Song For The Old Memory… 2,050 words…. Total April words… 11,950 words.
Day Five… A Brush with Intent… 1,000 words…. Total April words… 12,950 words.
Day Six… Ghost Diet… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 15,650 words.
Day Seven… Rescue Two… 3,300 words…. Total April words… 18,950 words.
Day Eight… The Woman Who Knew The Time… 3,200 words…. Total April words… 22,150 words.
Day Nine… Long Hair Henry… 4,400 words…. Total April words… 26,550 words.
Day Ten… I’ll See You… 1,500 words…. Total April words… 28,050 words.
Day Eleven… Girl on the Bed… 2,000 words…. Total April words… 30,050 words.
Day Twelve… Everything Got Colder… 2,050 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Thirteen… (did not write)… 00 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Fourteen… (did not write)… 00 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Fifteen… Old Memories… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 34,800 words.
Day Sixteen… Models’ Four.. 1,900 words…. Total April words… 36,700 words.
Day Seventeen… (did not write).. 00 words…. Total April words… 36,700 words.
Day Eighteen… Green Canyon.. 2,500 words…. Total April words… 39,200 words.
Day Nineteen… (did not write).. 00 words…. Total April words… 39,200 words.
Day Twenty… Something In My Darling.. 1,600 words…. Total April words… 40,800 words.
Day Twenty-one… (did not write).. 1,600 words…. Total April words… 40,800 words.

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MAY INSIDER’S GUIDE Workshops 

— Insider’s Guide to Writing Serial Fiction (2,000 word parts of a novel) (Starts May 6th)
— Insider’s Guide to Writing Detective Fiction. (Starts May 6th)

$300 each, limited to ten writers plus lifetime subscribers. One time workshops. They will not be regular. Sorry. But Lifetime Subscribers have access to them of course going forward.

THESE ARE NOW ON TEACHABLE TO SIGN UP.

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MAY REGULAR WORKSHOPS 

Sign up directly through Teachable or if you have a credit, write me directly to sign up.

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Class #49… May 1st … Depth #3: Research
Class #50… May 1st … Author Voice
Class #51… May 1st … Dialog
Class #52… May 1st … Writing into the Dark
Class #53… May 1st … Writing Fiction Sales Copy
Class #54… May 1st … Writing and Selling Short Stories
Class #55… May 2nd … Depth in Writing
Class #56… May 2nd … Business
Class #57… May 2nd … (open)
Class #58… May 2nd … (open)
Class #59… May 2nd … Novel Structure
Class #60… May 2nd … Writing Fantasy

3 Comments

  • Scott Gordon

    Another day, another 4,200 words. Barely.

    It took me a lot longer this time, but that’s largely because I’m tired and should have eaten better. (A little exercise wouldn’t hurt, either.) Once I plugged into the story, it came right out, but slower than yesterday.

    Secret Agent Disco Dancer: The Last Ding Dong on Earth now has approximately 9,400 words and 5 new chapters. I’m right at the end, but I don’t want to rush to get it done. I’d rather have a good ending than a quick ending. This story will surely cross the 10,000-word threshold by day’s end tomorrow. Will let you guys know how everything turns out.

    Total word count for the past 5 days: 21,456 (an average of 4,291 words/day)

  • allynh

    Remember, the calendar is more flexible than you realize.

    If I plan on taking a week, or a month, or a year to get stuff done, I have no problem making that an eight day week, or a 36 day month, or a 14 month year, as long as things still got done. HA!

  • Dave Raines

    BTW, “A Planned Miss” would be a good story title. (You just can”t help generating them, can you ?)