Writing in Public - Year 1, Month 8, Days 13-19

My adoption of Dean Wesley Smith's Writing in Public challenge continues.

Monday evening I spent some time putting labels on the last three batches of beer I brewed at home, so I could keep track of them all.  I took notes from my reading of James Scott Bell's Super Structure book and built a review for How To Write Fiction (1,168 words) and responded to a reader comment (160 words) on an existing article there.  Also did a journal entry (399 words).  Total words for the day: 1,727.

On Tuesday evening, I did opening line practice.  I wrote a total of 16 opening lines, 8 of which were paragraphs (525 words).  I also wrote a journal entry (359 words).  I also wrote a couple of scenes for the ASL story The Revenant (758 words).  Total for the day: 1,642 words.

Wednesday evening, I wrote a post for this blog about the McDonald's Minions Caveman toy that people believe says "WTF" instead of laughing (1,151 words).  I also wrote a journal entry (297 words).  That's 1,448 words for the day.

Thursday evening I started with a journal entry (713 words).  Then I wrote a bit more of the rewrite of the ASL story The Revenant (1,311 words).  That's 2,024 words for the day and 6,841 for the week so far.  A third of that was fiction.

Saturday and Sunday were spent visiting family, and no writing took place.  When we got back home, I managed to write a journal entry (404 words) and this post (250 words).

The week's total word count was 7,495.

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JULY 2015 WORD COUNTS

Short Stories:

• The Mimas Object (a story in the Alliance universe): 0 words
• The Revenant (a story in the Alliance universe):  5,649 words

Non-Fiction:

• Writing Notes Taken: 0 words

Blogging and Journaling:

• Alliance of Sentient Lifeforms (ASL): 0 words
• Begin Brewing: 0 words
• Columbus Beer Scene:  1,233 words
• How to Write Fiction: 5,505 words
• Windows Desktop Administration: 0 words
• This Blog: 2,224 words
• Journaling:  4.757 words

Opening Lines, Paragraphs, Pages:

• Opening Lines Written: 43 lines (1,933 words)
• Opening Paragraphs Written: 22
• Opening Pages Written: 1

THIS MONTH - TOTAL WORDS: 21,301 (avg. 1,121.1 per day)

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CHALLENGE - YEAR TO DATE RESULTS:

Record Word Counts:

• Day:  8,693 (March 29, 2015)
• Week:  20,589 (April 6-13, 2015)
• Month: 56,486 (March 2015)

Month of Challenge	Words Written	Days	Words/Day
December 2014	20,754	31	669.5
January 2015	16,018	31	516.7
February 2015	47,660	28	1702.1
March 2015	56,486	31	1822.1
April 2015	45,443	30	1514.8
May 2015	31,243	31	1007.8
June 2015	35,779	30	1192.6
July 2015	21,301	19	1121.1
TOTAL WORDS	274,684	231
Avg. Words per Day	1,189.1