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Nine Years
Talking About the Power of a Streak… Nine years ago today, 3,285 days ago, I started a blogging streak. The idea was to blog about something, anything every day. (I had been doing a few blogs before that on the Star Trek boards and so on.) No excuses. Traveling, sick, computer failures, other more important things to do. None of that mattered. Blog had to be done. And for some reason that got into my DNA and now every night Kris even asks me if I got a blog done. As with all streaks, I had other motives at the start and never, in a billion years, did I think…
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Another Long Moving Day
Got the Original Pulphouse Books Up and In Place… Wow, we did a lot of books, especially when you consider three or four states per book. 285 different titles. Took a bunch of moving from our office condo which is where they were to up here. Also today submitted for approval another Kickstarter Campaign. This one for Pulphouse Magazine subscriptions. Going to be a good one. In fact, it has two special three-week workshops that will run in September and October. You can only sign up for them through the campaign. One is a complete redo of HOW TO WRITE A PULPHOUSE STORY. Not even going to look at the…
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Reset In August
Not Enough Hours In the Month… Over the last seven days or so, I had been wondering why I hadn’t gotten to more hours at the computer. I was having a blast with the novel and with the writing, but just found myself doing things that needed to be done with the move and workshops. So yesterday I got the movers appointment set. It will be the 21st of the month. About 11 days I have to have everything in our old two condos boxed, the last of it moved up here to this new place that Kris and I needed to move (mostly a few books and a lot…
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Day Eight
Lots of Stuff Happening… Ended up getting another 3,000 plus words done, but again not breaking up into the next level for production for no reason other than I am just doing too many other things. And the story is fun, although I have a nagging feeling it will end up shorter than longer. Considering how bumpy a start this has been, I suppose that is better. At this point anything above a novella would be a win. How It Went… Got to the writing computer right at noon again today. Got 1,000 words or so done before heading off with Kris for lunch to work on the first thing…
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Day Seven
Started Back Writing… About 3,500 words today. Not a full day at it, but better and the book is fun, so all good there as well. If I was walking the deadlines of this challenge, I would have the first book done, or very close. Nope, a ways from that. I’ll get there when I get there. How Did It Go? I got up after ten hours of sleep and managed to actually sit down at my writing computer directly at noon. 12:01 pm to be precise. I thought that was funny as the days before I got to the writing computer closer to 11 pm. So did about 1,000…
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Day Six
Skipped Day Five And did a ton of other things today once again and only managed a thousand words because I am so tired at the moment (12:30 am) to go back and write any more, so going for a good night’s sleep and see what tomorrow brings. Normally I would get two or three thousand more words tonight. Just nope. Not going to write any more tonight either here in this blog. I’ll catch up a bunch of stuff in tomorrow night’s post. This just keeps my blogging streak alive. Night.
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Skipping a Day
Still Will Have Four Novels Done In a Month… But as I expected, today turned into a complete work on other stuff day. Except for a few breaks to work on moving or go out to lunch, I spent all day at this internet computer. All day and now into the night. No eye left for my writing computer. Why did I do this? Well, here is why… The Fantasy Collections Class started. The Heroes and Heroines Collection Class started. Vastness of Space Class started. Writing Spaceships Class started. Plus all the regular Tuesday monthly classes for July started. Those are Covers 101, Publishing 101, Writing into the Dark, and…
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Day Four…
Book One… The move and workshop stuff won the day completely, along with holiday stuff. I expected it some, because I knew the move was getting close to being in a good spot and I just wanted to get it done. But then I also got out all the emails for the special workshops and also recorded one week of another. Scary busy. How Did It Go… I had every plan on getting to the writing today, more than likely in the middle of the afternoon after lunch. Ended up unloading and moving hundreds of boxes, securing shelves on walls, moving furniture into place, unloading books, and so on and…
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Day Two
Book One… The Challenge is to write four novels in one month. General aspects of life at the moment is that Kris and I just moved and we are both exhausted, but still putting things away. All standard after a big move. We are lucky in one way with the move. We still have both of our original condos, the place we lived and also our offices. So we have the entire month to get them finished and cleaners in to clean them. That helps. How It Went… Second day standard blahs for me. I actually didn’t even get to my writing computer until 11 pm at night and managed…
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Challenge Updates
Publishing 70 Books Challenge On Target… Just under six months into the publish 70 books challenge in my 70th year and doing great so far. I have 27 books actually published and 10 more turned in for publication. And I hope by Monday to turn in three more. A new novel, a new issue of Smith’s Monthly, and a new issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. So before the halfway point I will have 40 books published or turned in and in line for publication. And if I just keep up with Smith’s Monthly through the middle of November, I will have 12 more turned in and published (six issues and…