Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2024 by Harvey

In Today’s Journal

* Merry Christmas!
* The Numbers

Merry Christmas!

I filed this edition mostly to report my numbers. (grin) Seems like most places are taking the next week or so off, so nothing today for Of Interest.

Today I’ll work my weird early hours on the novel, then go up to the house at around 6 to spend the rest of the day with my bride.

Like many of you, I’ll give and receive gifts, eat far too much, and maybe watch a football game.

I hope your Christmas will be the best ever.

Talk with you again soon.

Harvey

The Numbers

The Journal…………………………… 100

Writing of The Intermittent Ghost: Jack Temple (BO-31A)

Day 1…… 4202 words. To date…… 4202
Day 2…… 3055 words. To date…… 7257
Day 3…… 3412 words. To date…… 10669
Day 4…… 3352 words. To date…… 14021

Fiction for December………………… 86118
Fiction for 2024………………………. 832218
Nonfiction for December…………….. 24180
Nonfiction for 2024…………………… 386750
2024 consumable words…………….. 1,218,968

Average Fiction WPD (December)…. 3588

2024 Novels to Date…………………….. 19
2024 Novellas to Date…………………… 1
2024 Short Stories to Date……………… 32
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………..… 103
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 269
Short story collections……………………. 29

Disclaimer: Whatever you believe, unreasoning fear and the myths that outlining, revising, and rewriting will make your work better are lies. They will always slow your progress as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.

Writing fiction should never be something that stresses you out. It should be fun. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark and adherence to Heinlein’s Rules. Because of WITD and because I endeavor to follow those Rules I am a prolific professional fiction writer. You can be too.