Day 8: 13 July 2021

Day 8! “Lost” another day to life stuff and clearing my head. But…the bright side is that I think I’ve finally gotten rid of the mental fallout from putting “Fires” together. It’s time to write The Fall of Skullkeep....

Day 7: 12 July 2021

Day 7 of my journey toward 1.5 million words of new fiction… Well, I’m afraid I lost the day to business work and life stuff. No new words. Daily Word Count: 0 Monthly Word Count: 22,479 Total Words in 2021:...

Day 6: 11 July 2021

When I wrote that I wanted to set a new monthly record today, I wasn’t processing that ‘today’ is Sunday. Sundays are never a prime writing day for me; there is simply too much going on. Plus, it’s good to have that one day with...

Day 5: 10 July 2021

Here, we are…Day 5 of my journey toward 1.5 million words of new fiction by the end of the year. And it was a good day. 6,821 words. That’s a record for July. I doubt I’ll set a new record tomorrow, but I hope I’ll do so Monday the 12th. It...

Day 4: 9 July 2021

So, Day 4 was a bit of an underachiever for me, and that is 100% my fault. I only wrote 1,002 words today, and I wrote them sitting in the waiting room at my local Ford dealership while the superlative staff there to performed some routine maintenance on my vehicle....

Day 3: 8 July 2021

Day 3 of my push toward 1.5 million words of new fiction is coming to a close, and yes, it was a productive day. A good day, even. But I’m still not hitting the daily word count I need to meet my goal. That is 100% a time management problem. If I were to...