Fourth Story Finished Sort of…

Well, that was fun…

Worked on the fourth short story. It is as done as it will get at this point because as I was going along it suddenly became very clear to me that this story would be a novel. So I pretended to wrap it up and just call it done, but not showing it to anyone.

A very future novel. See below

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The Day…

Got up to WMG by 2 p.m. and worked on a new project we will announce shortly. Totally nuts, but in a good way I hope.

Also took a long walk to get steps.

Then home to cook dinner and do the assignments for the workshops.

Then off to watch The Voice.

Pretty much the same as yesterday.

Back here around 2 a.m. and I went for my sheets of half-titles to get started. I found a half title from an old magazine. “A Nice Place…”  I smashed it against a half title from another magazine… “for Murder.” Typed in the title “A Nice Place for Murder.”

I knew almost instantly with that title it was a Mary Jo Assassin story.

I wrote about seven hundred words, but it was going slow, so I took a break at 3 a.m.

Went back to it, cycled back up and did another 1,o00 words before 4 a.m. It was still going slow and it was at that point I realized the thing would be a novel.

No idea what the novel will be about, but I expected this in this challenge.

So I wrote one more paragraph just for this challenge to pretend it ended (I will take that off when I write the novel) and then came to do this. As a short story, unless I can come up with a better wrap, it will never see the light of day. But it will be the start of the novel by the same name.

At least I got a short story done tonight.

The story I wrote last night will also be a novel in the Seeders Universe, but it worked as a short story. Got lucky there.

So now on my white board I have three novel starts. Tombstone Cliff: A Thunder Mountain Novel, A Deal at the End of Time: A Seeders Universe Novel, and now A Nice Place for Murder: A Mary Jo Assassin Novel.

Hot damn, this is fun.

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Strengths Workshops

Still working on finishing up the last two. They seem to be going well from Kris and my viewpoint. Information under the Strengths Workshop tab above. Any questions, feel free to write me.

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April ONLINE Workshops Last Call!!

All April workshops have spots open.  Everyone signed up should have gotten the first letters.

ALSO, the workshop schedule through August is now posted. You can sign up ahead for any workshop you want through August.

So for information on how to sign up, go to…

www.wmgpublishingworkshops.com

Any questions at all, feel free to write me. And if you are confused as to which workshop to take first, we have a full curriculum posted on its own page.

Class #31… Apr 4th … Writing Thrillers
Class #32… Apr 4th … Point of View
Class #33… Apr 4th … Writing Mysteries
Class #34… Apr 4th … Speed
Class #35… Apr 4th … Teams in Fiction
Class #36… Apr 5th … Depth in Writing
Class #37… Apr 5th … Expectations (Writing on the Rails)
Class #38… Apr 5th … Character Development
Class #39… Apr 5th … Writing Secondary Plot Lines
Class #40… Apr 5th … Advanced Depth

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Tracking Running… April 4th, 2017
4 miles. No running.
Weight 194. (Goal 170)
Month to date distance: 17 miles
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Tracking Word Counts… April 4th, 2017
Totals For Year 4, Month 9, Day 4 (Year started August)
Writing in Public blog streak… Day 1,293

— Daily Fiction: 1,600 original words. Fiction month-to-date: 9,500 words  
— Nonfiction: 1,000 new words. Nonfiction month-to-date total: 1,000 words 
— Blog Posts: 500 new words. Blog month-to-date word count: 2,100 words
— E-mail: 38 e-mails. Approx. 3,200 original words.  E-mails month-to date: 126 e-mails. Approx. 10,100 words
— Short Fiction Goal: 120 stories (July 1st to June 30th). Stories to date: 12 stories.
— Novel Goal: 12 Novels. Novels finished to date: 5 novels.

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