So January 2015 came and went. Wow, was that fast! Other than not posting to my blog, what else have I been up to? Writing. Oh my, all the writing. Remember that million word goal I set for myself? Yeah. So I need to average about 2740 words a day to hit that goal over the course of the year. Did I do that in January?
Oh yes. I hit my monthly goal of about 84,000 words around the 27th, and then my wife suggested I try pushing to break 100k in January. Challenge accepted, and succeeded. I wrote just over 100k words of new content in January, a personal record for most words in a month. Pretty sweet, right?
Well, words on the page doesn’t mean much if you’re not translating them into complete stories. I’m pleased to note that while a good chunk of those words were me practicing story openings (I have about 25 openings to short stories and scenes to move forward with now) I was able to finish a short story, a novelette, and a 32k novella that will be the first installment in a new Weird Western series. Once those stories are edited and finalized, I’ll publish them all some time this year.
So, yeah, lots of good writing practice, lots of content to digest, and some really good forward momentum heading into February.
