Two Story Day

So That Makes Five Short Stories in Two Days!

25 stories done in April, 5 to go with 2 days left. Uphill, but I am having fun, so that is all that matters.

And both stories again today were my new character Sky Tate. These are all stand-alone stories, not chapters. And if I hit this challenge, you will be able to read them along with these blogs in the book, just like Stories from July.

The Day And the Stories

Started off by getting up at 9:30 a.m. and was actually at our dining room table looking out over Las Vegas by 10:30 a.m., doing email. Second day in a row. I ended up spending a lot of time on email, so I got us lunch from a restaurant downstairs and we did some planning on the move.

I didn’t get to writing until after twelve and got about a thousand words done on a new story titled “Come Around Cindy” before Kris and I headed out to the Bellagio.

We planned that I would find a place to write there while Kris went to a nifty exhibit that was showing there. I spent far too much time exploring the new layout of the Bellagio and watching a tournament in the poker room. No words done, no real place to sit and write anyway.

So we decided to go down to the Mirage for pizza and then home to write.

Great pizza. Wonderful second lunch or early dinner for me.

I took a nap when we got home (too much pizza) and finished the story around 6 p.m. at 2,600 words.

I took a break and we went out to do a little shopping for the condo, then we got back and I started on a new story I called Patty Bluff. (Again, woman’s name in the title of every Sky Tate Detective story.)

I got about a thousand words into the story after a false attempt to go down to the pool and write. Too windy.

Kris and I watched some television and she helped me set up my new headphones, then after she headed off to bed I finished the second story at 2,450 words.

So a two story day.

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Day One… Scared Money… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 2,700 words.
Day Two… Rainbow Peak… 4,900 words…. Total April words… 7,600 words.
Day Three… A Beautiful History… 2,300 words…. Total April words… 9,900 words.
Day Four… A Song For The Old Memory… 2,050 words…. Total April words… 11,950 words.
Day Five… A Brush with Intent… 1,000 words…. Total April words… 12,950 words.
Day Six… Ghost Diet… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 15,650 words.
Day Seven… Rescue Two… 3,300 words…. Total April words… 18,950 words.
Day Eight… The Woman Who Knew The Time… 3,200 words…. Total April words… 22,150 words.
Day Nine… Long Hair Henry… 4,400 words…. Total April words… 26,550 words.
Day Ten… I’ll See You… 1,500 words…. Total April words… 28,050 words.
Day Eleven… Girl on the Bed… 2,000 words…. Total April words… 30,050 words.
Day Twelve… Everything Got Colder… 2,050 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Thirteen… (did not write)… 00 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Fourteen… (did not write)… 00 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Fifteen… Old Memories… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 34,800 words.
Day Sixteen… Models’ Four.. 1,900 words…. Total April words… 36,700 words.
Day Seventeen… (did not write).. 00 words…. Total April words… 36,700 words.
Day Eighteen… Green Canyon.. 2,500 words…. Total April words… 39,200 words.
Day Nineteen… (did not write).. 00 words…. Total April words… 39,200 words.
Day Twenty… Something In My Darling.. 1,600 words…. Total April words… 40,800 words.
Day Twenty-one… (did not write).. 00 words…. Total April words… 40,800 words.
Day Twenty-two… Reluctant With Intent.. 2,000 words…. Total April words… 42,800 words.
Day Twenty-three… (did not write).. 00 words…. Total April words… 42,800 words.
Day Twenty-four… Two-Handeed Stand.. 2,150words…. Total April words… 44,950 words.
Day Twenty-five… Dead Woman Walking.. 2,100 words…. Total April words… 47,050 words.
Day Twenty-six… Cherry Jones.. 2,700 words…. Total April words… 49,750 words.
Day Twenty-seven… The Story of Jean.. 2,550 words…. Total April words… 52,300 words.
…………………… Debbie Does the Desert… 3,400 words…. Total April words… 55,700 words.
………………….. A Time and A Place for April…. 1,600 words…. Total April words… 57,300 words.

Day Twenty-eight…. Come Around Cindy.. 2,600 words…. Total April words… 59,900 words.
…………………… Patty Bluff… 2,450 words…. Total April words… 62,350 words.

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