Writing in Public - Year 1, Month 8, Days 1-5

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

Note:  This article was accidentally deleted and had to be re-created on July 6.

On Wednesday (July 1), I wrote a journal entry (378 words) and some opening lines for practice (421 words).  This worked out to 799 words for the day, well below my average for the challenge to date.

On Thursday, I didn't write anything.

Friday, I wrote the first part of a series of posts for How to Write Fiction on the subject of story openings and opening lines (824 words), a journal entry (181 words), and a single opening line for practice (28 words).  That gave me 1,033 words for the day.

Saturday, I wrote the second part of the series on story openings (1,312 words).

Sunday, I wrote a chunk of the opening for my ASL story The Revenant (1,839 words), a post about Brothers Drake mead for Columbus Beer Scene (330 words), and the final section of the series on story openings for How To Write Fiction (2,041 words).  I also managed a journal entry (431 words) and this post (originally 205 words).  That gave me a daily total of 4,846 words.

The week's total, then, worked out to 7,990 words.

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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):  1,839 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:  330 words
• How to Write Fiction: 4,177 words
• Windows Desktop Administration: 0 words
• This Blog: 205 words
• Journaling:  990 words

Opening Lines, Paragraphs, Pages:

• Opening Lines Written: 14 lines (449 words)
• Opening Paragraphs Written: 4
• Opening Pages Written: 0

THIS MONTH - TOTAL WORDS: 7,990 (avg. 1,598 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	7,990	5	1598.0
TOTAL WORDS	261,373	217
Avg. Words per Day	1204.5