Monday, January 5, 2015

Writing in Public - Year 1, Month 1, Days 15-27

Michael Salsbury
I am continuing my adoption of Dean Wesley Smith's Writing in Public challenge of the past couple of years.

This period saw me building a list of the books I've read during 2014 and posting an article about it here.

I also came up with an opening line for "opening line practice".  Tonight I came up with 15 more.  Nine of these turned into opening paragraphs.

I wrote a few beer reviews for my beer site, which will appear online over the next couple of months.  I'm well behind where I like to be with this site, unfortunately.

Over the holidays, I visited my father and picked up several of my late mother's recipe books.  I wrote some of these up and plan to post them on the site for future reference.  I'll be putting up one a day for a while.

I'm disappointed with having written only about 2,000 words in 12 days.  However, this was over the Christmas and New Year's period, when most folks here in the US are spending lots of time with family and friends.  Hopefully this week we'll be seeing more productivity from me...

To make tracking this challenge easier, I'm going to slide the start date from December 8, 2014, back to December 1, 2014 so that the challenge will reset on the first of each calendar month.  Thus, the next post in this series will indicate that it's "Year 1, Month 2, Days 5-11."

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TODAY'S WORD COUNTS
  • This Blog: 489 words in recipes, 242 words in this post, 731 total
  • How to Write Fiction:  0 words
  • Columbus Beer Scene: 1,005 words
  • Opening Lines Written: 16 lines, 520 words (12 of these written in December and will be counted against that figure)
  • Opening Paragraphs Written: 9
TOTAL WORDS FOR THIS PERIOD: 2,256

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JANUARY 2015 WORD COUNTS

Novels:
  • Fully Invested: 0 words (notes and backstory)
  • The Alliance (series): 0 words
  • The Mimas Object (a story in the Alliance universe): 0 words
  • Alien Love Story: 0 words
  • Driven To Kill: 0 words
  • Local Gods: 0 words
  • The Black Eagles: 0 words
  • The Old Hotel: 0 words
Short Stories:
  • None in progress at this time.
Non-Fiction:
  • Introduction to Application Repackaging: 0 words
  • Troubleshooting Windows Applications: 0 words
  • Amazon Product Reviews:  0 words
Blogging:
  • Columbus Beer Scene: 1,005 words
  • How to Write Fiction: 0 words
  • Introduction to Application Repackaging: 0 words
  • Windows Desktop Administration: 0 words
  • This Blog: 731 words
  • Guest Posts for Other Blogs: 0 words
Opening Lines, Paragraphs, Pages:
  • Opening Lines Written: 15 lines (508 words)
  • Opening Paragraphs Written: 9
  • Opening Pages Written: 0
JANUARY - MONTH TO DATE WORDS: 2,244

DECEMBER 2014 WORDS:  20,754

About the Author

Michael Salsbury / Author & Editor

In his day job, Michael Salsbury helps administer over 1,800 Windows desktop computers for a Central Ohio non-profit. When he's not working, he's writing, blogging, podcasting, home brewing, or playing "warm furniture" to his two Bengal cats.

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