Writing in Public - Year 1, Month 9, Days 10-16

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

Monday I stayed home to help get my wife to her doctor appointment and to assist her around the house.  Her accident last Saturday left her with her dominant arm in a sling and in need of help with many ordinary tasks without extreme pain.  Fortunately, we learned that nothing seems to be broken or seriously damaged.

At the office, this was an incredibly taxing week for me.  Adobe released a Flash Player update.  Microsoft released its usual monthly patch workload.  I've also had to assist in budgeting efforts around an application virtualization effort I'm responsible for completing by year-end.  The stress level was such that I simply didn't have the mental energy to write most of the week.

I spent a lot of time Friday and Saturday night unwinding.  I played some of the downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas that I'd purchased a long time ago and never played.  The writers, artists, and voice actors in that content did some impressive work.  I really enjoyed the "Big MT" content.  I'm currently working on the "Sierra Madre" part.

On Sunday afternoon, I finished a couple of articles for the Begin Brewing blog.  I also pulled out the Grainfather all-grain brewing device to finish setting it up, cleaning it, and testing it.  The test was a success in that I learned more about how it works, how to use it, etc.  It failed in that I discovered what is either a defect in my device or a misunderstanding in how to use it.  This became the material behind a 1600-word post for Begin Brewing.  That made for a 3,371 word day.

My weekly total was a disappointing 4,675 words.

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AUGUST 2015 WORD COUNTS

Short Stories:

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

Non-Fiction:

• Writing Notes Taken: 0 words
• Brewing Notes Taken:  0 words

Blogging and Journaling:

• Alliance of Sentient Lifeforms (ASL): 0 words
• Begin Brewing: 5,856 words
• Columbus Beer Scene:  1,298 words
• How to Write Fiction: 0 words
• Windows Desktop Administration: 0 words
• This Blog: 1,182 words
• Journaling:  969 words

Opening Lines, Paragraphs, Pages:

• Opening Lines Written: 0 lines (0 words)
• Opening Paragraphs Written: 0
• Opening Pages Written: 0

THIS MONTH - TOTAL WORDS: 9,305 (avg. 581.6 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	36,992	31	1193.3
August 2015	9,305	16	581.6
TOTAL WORDS	299,680	259
Avg. Words per Day	1,157.1