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Year End Summary of Writing in Public: Year One
Year End Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. Not even sure where to begin this summary to be honest. I’ve post all the different categories I count and monthly and yearly totals below, but those numbers only tell a part of the story. But let me start with the numbers first and go from there. I did (not counting comments on web sites) 1,281,675 original words in the last twelve months. 745,175 words of that was original fiction. 51,700 words of that was nonfiction. (So just under 800,000 words of fiction and nonfiction combined. More than I thought, actually.) That ended up being twelve novels and over thirty short stories…
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Writing in Public: Summary of Month 12
Month #12 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. July 2014 I will do a year-end summary after this. So check that out. This post is only about July. Once again, as with last month, this was a pretty solid month, all things considered. Smith’s Monthly is going right along. #10 is done and will be shipping to subscribers as soon as the fine folks at WMG Publishing get back next week. And #11 will be back from the proofreader this week as well and will be out by the end of August. I finished two novels this month, including Avalanche Creek, the 12th novel of the year. So that felt great. As I…
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Writing in Public: Summary of Month 11
Month #11 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. June 2014 Once again, as with last month, this was a pretty solid month, all things considered. I didn’t pick up speed as I hoped to do, but that’s all right. Still fine. Smith’s Monthly is going right along. #9 came out just fine. Electronic copies were shipped to subscribers and paper copies will be going out shortly, just slightly late due to a printing and shipping issue. If you didn’t get an electronic copy and should have, please let me know. I also got #10 back from the proof reader and I started working on flowing it in already. I had another novel…
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Writing in Public: Summary of Month 10
Month #10 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. May 2014 This was a pretty solid month, all things considered. And I should be picking up speed in June even more. Smith’s Monthly is going right along. #8 came out just fine and was shipped to subscribers. Many should be getting the paper copies soon and if you didn’t get an electronic copy and should have, please let me know. I also got #9 back from the proof reader and I started working on flowing it in already. I had another novel come out this month, started yet another, so all good there. At some point I’ll do a post showing all the…
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Writing in Public: Month 8 Summary
Month #8 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. March 2014 This was basically a month of recovery from a long winter and a slow start at ramping back up. Not a fantastic month, but sure a lot better than I had during the winter. Wow. Today I got four of my novels author copies for my shelf. All four novels came out in the first three months of this year. Images at the top of the page, available in just about any store. And I got a proof to look over for yet another novel, plus a nonfiction book. And Smith’s Monthly #6 is out in electronic and the paper…
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The New World of Publishing: Can’t Get Books Into Bookstore Myth
It Has Officially Hit Myth Status When some of the biggest supporters of indie publishing and indie writers start going on about how they are giving up paper books to New York, I finally just shook my head and assigned all the silliness to myth status. So, since I have the book Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing now out in both paper and electronic and available, I suppose it’s time I start into the next book: Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing. And Sacred Cow (myth) #1 is that indie writers, with their own press, CAN’T GET THEIR BOOKS INTO BOOKSTORES. A complete myth.…
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Writing in Public: Month 6 and Half Year Summary
Month #6 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. January 2014 Made it through Month #6. Actually, I think you could safely say I limped through Month #6 and got to the end of it. I also had ten zero-word days, most because of travel. So only 21 days of writing and most of that was limping due to a ton of other stuff and getting my sleep schedule badly out of whack. Of the six months of this challenge, January was the worst month in the fiction writing. After a bad December and a bad November. I’m just distracted and having far too much fun and learning on other things.…
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Writing in Public: Month 5 (and a little Year End) Summary
Month #5 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. December, 2013 Made it through Month #5 and firing into Month #6 of this Writing in Public. And, as it happens, this month is the end of the year as well, so a little about that. Of the five months of this challenge, December was the worst month in the fiction writing. I always slack off in November and December for some reason, but until I started this exact recording every day, I hadn’t really realized how much. Of course, I was doing so much other stuff, I just didn’t push this month. This is the kind of writing month I have…
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Writing in Public: Month 4 Summary… November
Month #4 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. November, 2013 I’m stunned that this fourth month got finished. And even more stunned I’m going after month #5. November was not a great month of writing. I just sort of dinged along with the Monumental Summit novel, then started the redo of the Sector Justice novel that didn’t have many new words with it. Plus I just didn’t push this month. This is the kind of writing month I have when I don’t pay much attention. I have the monthly word counts below. And as I have said every month, even though I knew I was going to give a general…
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Writing in Public: Month 3 Summary: October 2013
Month #3 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. October, 2013 I’m stunned that this third month is already done, to be honest. And I’m stunned that it was my best month by a little bit. It sure didn’t feel that way. Strange. I have those word counts below. And as I have said every month, even though I knew I was going to give a general summary of the day here every day, it changed my behavior not at all. Not at all. And as a couple of you asked, I do exercise, just not in huge blocks of time. My bad knees won’t allow that until I drop this…