Story #20

Have Not Missed a Day So Far…

Today turned out to be novel day in my story challenge. I have been going through the stories and spell-checking them so Kris could read them. (She has read three in the last three days so far. I’m giving her one a day.)

So trying to stay ahead of Kris reding, I pulled up Story #9 to spell check and remembered it was a novel start, I had written a ways into it and could not wrap it down into a short story. So I figured why not try to figure out a wrap now?

1,000 more words on the start and nope, no short story in sight. So I pulled it out and put it in a novel file to write next year after I am done with this challenge. I count it as a story written, but it just won’t be in a collection or sold stand-alone.

So did a bunch of workshop stuff, including a webinar for the Kris and Dean show, then off to the store for shopping, cooking dinner, assignments, a nap and more workshop recording. Monday and Tuesdays are busy days that way. So didn’t get to my writing computer until 12:30 and damn if my creative voice, after working on that novel start earlier, served me up another novel start.

But I got the upper hand on this one and should be able to finish a wrap on it around 3,000 words.  Also, it starts a second character series inside of my Thunder Mountain series. I already started a detectives through time series, and this one is treasure hunters. Both in the Thunder Mountain series.

So the summary so far is 20 stories in 20 days, but one is a full novel start. I have not yet written a stand alone story outside of one of my series, but I have created and written three short stories in a brand new series in the Poker Boy universe. Not bad for the first 20 days of the year.

Story #20…”To Serve the Treasure.”

Onward I go. Having fun.

THE KRIS AND DEAN SHOW DOES BACK TO THE FUTURE

Yes, we are doing it, and Back to the Future has a lot more on pacing and information flow than Die Hard. A ton more.

It is available on WMG Teachable for $50 until it launches on Feb 13th. Then the price goes to $75. Three plus hours of Kris and I taking that movie apart to teach you writing techniques. Should be fun.