Update on Challenge

STILL GOING…

I have no intention of tossing in the towel on this one even though March and April were tough and I didn’t get that many stories done.

My pattern over the years is that I always have troubles in March and April and then ramp back up solidly in May and while most writers are lost in The Time of Great Forgetting, I am writing at full speed or better. I’m going to need a bunch of two-story days to get back on track, and I can do that over the next five months without too much of a problem. (Got it planned out.)

And my most productive writing time is always from September to the end of the year. Going to be super fun. Stay tuned. I will attempt to talk more about it here and in more detail.

One thing that has totally failed is my plan to get the stories out and published as I went along. Again, that was due to the extremeness of things in the last three months or so that also caused me to write a lot less, but honestly am no longer worried about that. Now I am aiming for next year with a lot of these stories and still want to ramp back up Smith’s Monthly by the fall.

Why next year? (I try to teach writers to look ahead, so I am going to show you how it is done.)

My goal next year is to write one novel every two weeks for 26 weeks. A lot of those will be published fairly quickly.

I will have all these short stories to put into collections and publish.

I will still be editing Pulphouse Fiction Magazine and with luck Smith’s Monthly, both monthly.

I will turn 75 in November this fall, so from my 75th birthday in my 75th year, I would like to publish 75 major books. I did 70 when I was 70. So all these stories are going to really help.

What is a major book? I use the same counting system that Asimov used to get to his 600 plus titles. If I edited it or wrote it, it counts.

Here is the image of the books I published in my 70th year, all 70 of them. See why I am considered prolific?