Novel Three: Day Seven
GETTING CLOSER…
(As a reminder, the overall monthly challenge is to write four novels and gain distance every week on my step count, starting the first week at an average of 11,000 steps per day.)
Only made about 6,000 steps again today. Just no time again today. Plus the wind was howling here today at over 25 mph. Not comfortable.
The Day Went Like This…
Got up at 1 p.m. even though I was up until 7 a.m. in the morning again. I wrote the forward for a Fiction River volume after I did my blog last night.
So tired today. First day of the challenge I didn’t get a full night’s sleep. Sleep is critical on this kind of thing.
Went to the writer’s meeting up at WMG until about 4:30 p.m., then worked there until I headed to the grocery store around 7:30 p.m. Got home, took a nap, and cooked dinner.
Got in here right around 10 p.m. once again for two more hours of e-mail and reading for the challenge. I am just puttering along on those. Reading every night.
Once my challenge is done, I will power and finish all the reading.
Got to the writing by midnight, which made me very happy. I wrote 1,200 words by 12:45.
Took a short break, did another 1,000 words, got stuck again on the novel.
Took a little longer break, got 1,100 words on the novel by 3 a.m. and it felt like I had written the ending. Very strange. But the book wasn’t over yet, so another short break and another 1,300 words making things just horrible for my characters and the world.
Short break and by 4:45 I had done 1,400 more words and gave up.
It sure would have been nice to end that novel right about where I wrote that false ending. But even though the relationship was worked out, the book was far from done. Strange how that happens, so in the next chapter, I tossed a bomb into the characters’ lives.
And maybe once again wrote myself into another corner. But what the heck, great fun.
6,000 words in 5 sessions.
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Novel #1…The Writing of TOMBSTONE CANYON: A Thunder Mountain Novel
Challenge Day 1… Words written… 6,600. Total so far… 6,600 words.
Challenge Day 2… Words written… 6,700. Total so far… 13,300 words.
Challenge Day 3… Words written… 6,100. Total so far… 19,400 words.
Challenge Day 4… Words written… 6,200. Total so far… 25,600 words.
Challenge Day 5… Words written… 6,200. Total so far…, 31,800 words.
Challenge Day 6… Words written… 6,100. Total so far…, 37,900 words.
Challenge Day 7… Words written… 3,200. Final Total…, 41,100 words. (Novel count is 38,000)
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Challenge Novel #2
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Novel #2…The Writing of DEATH TAKES A DIAMOND: A Mary Jo Assassin Novel
Challenge Day 8… Words written… 6,400. Total so far… 6,400 words.
Challenge Day 9… Words written… 6,100. Total so far… 12,500 words.
Challenge Day 10… Words written… 3,200. Total so far… 15,700 words.
Challenge Day 11… Words written… 2,900. Total written so far… 18,600 words.
Challenge Day 12… Words written… 3,100. Total written so far… 21,700 words.
Challenge Day 13… Words written… 6,100. Total written so far… 27,800 words.
Challenge Day 14… Words written… 3,300. Total written so far… 31,100 words.
Challenge Day 15… Words written… 6,200. Total written so far… 37,300 words.
Challenge Day 16… Words written… 6,500. Total written so far… 43,800 words. (Novel is no where near that long and might get shorter still after Kris reads it.)
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Challenge Novel #3
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Novel #3…The Writing of DRY CREEK CROSSING: A Thunder Mountain Novel
Challenge Day 17… Words written… 3,100. Total so far… 3,100 words.
Challenge Day 18… Words written… 3,400. Total so far… 6,500 words.
Challenge Day 19… Words written… 2,900. Total so far… 9,400 words.
Challenge Day 20… Words written… 6,200. Total so far… 15,600 words.
Challenge Day 21… Words written… 6,300. Total so far… 21,900 words.
Challenge Day 22… Words written… 6,100. Total so far… 28,000 words.
Challenge Day 23… Words written… 6,000. Total so far… 34,000 words.
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The Day Breakdown
5 hours writing… 6,000 words
1 hours exercise plus normal movement… 6,300 steps
5 hours of work for workshops and e-mails and meetings and such.
The rest is television and cooking and and so on. Plus 8 hours of sleep. Two 10 minute naps.
THE CHALLENGE SO FAR…
Days over 6,000 words… 15 of 23
Days over 11,000 steps… 11 of 23
10.5 hours of regular job work this week. Today is week day two.
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Tracking Word Counts… July 23rd, 2017
Writing in Public blog streak… Day 1,404
— Daily Fiction: 6,000 original words. Fiction month-to-date: 118,900 words
— Nonfiction: 700 new words. Nonfiction month-to-date total: 700 words
— Blog Posts: 400 new words. Blog month-to-date word count: 10,700 words
— E-mail: 22 e-mails. Approx. 700 original words. E-mails month-to date: 674 e-mails. Approx. 39,600 words
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NEW FANTASY COVER SERIES BRANDING WORKSHOP
Starts on Wednesday. I will close this not full on Tuesday.
Taught by Allyson Longueira. You get a template out of it as well as learning.
See the post below this one for details. First come, first in.
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AUGUST ONLINE WORKSHOPS
All have openings at the moment. Information at
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 #13… Aug 8th … Depth #3: Research
Class #14… Aug 8th … Endings
Class #15… Aug 8th … Point of View
Class #16… Aug 8th … Writing Mysteries
Class #17… Aug 8th … Speed
Class #18… Aug 8th … Teams in Fiction
Class #19… Aug 9th … Depth in Writing
Class #20… Aug 9th … How to Edit Your Own Work
Class #21… Aug 9th … Character Development
Class #22… Aug 9th … Writing Secondary Plot Lines
Class #23… Aug 9th … Advanced Depth
Class #24… Aug 9th … Writing Fantasy
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