My goal for each week is 3,000 words. Last week, I only made it to 1,663 words. That was kind of discouraging, especially since I had written well over 4,000 the week before and thought I was on a roll. Anyway, I didn’t quite make my goal this week, but I did write 2,789. That’s pretty close, so I’ll take it. My story is ending up with some more twists I wasn’t expecting. That’s always fun. Even when I have an outline, new ideas keep popping up, so I just change the outline. So I’m still plotting. Just sometimes after the fact. 🙂
Also, I want to mention that I took part in a Halloween anthology, contributing a short story called “The Third Wish”. The anthology is only $1.00, and the proceeds (minus PayPal fees) all go to UNICEF. This anthology was the brain child of Joy Kamen. She remembered that as a child, she Trick or Treated for UNICEF. She thought this would be a good way for adults to do the same. Joy worked really hard on this project. So if you’re interested in downloading the pdf file for $1.00, just click the pretty cover over to the right, which goes to the download page on Joy’s site. Thanks!
So, how did the rest of you do this week?
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That is a pretty cover. Well done on the anthology.
Thanks, Emma. It was a lot of fun stepping away from my current WIP and writing a short story that was light and romantic. 🙂
Ooh, twists and turns in your WIP! Sometimes it takes a little longer to work through them. What point are you at in the story now? At the middle? Nearing the end?
This anthology looks cool. I need to click now and go buy it. NOW! 🙂
Yeah the twists are making me have to rethink some other stuff. LOL. According to that little word count meter on the right I’m about 72% through it. It feels like I should be further. 🙂
I can’t wait to read the other stories in the anthology. I might even read mine again. *giggle* Thanks, J.R.!
Congrats on the short story. I find those so hard to write as my loquaciousness never stops. Most attempts at a short story feel like something bigger. And look, you beat last weeks total. Told you so.
Well, my short story actually ended up a tad longer than I intended. But it’s still pretty short. I don’t write many short stories, but when I do, I can churn them out pretty fast. 🙂
Btw, I wanted to be lazy yesterday, but I remembered you saying I would write more this week. So I HAD to. 😉
That’s really nice of you to submit a short story for the anthology and very awesome that Joy has arranged everything. 😀
It’s hard not to get discouraged when we don’t reach our word counts. I have to constantly remind myself that every word I get, I’m closer to finishing the book. Too bad we can’t turn the creativity on so we could maximize our ability to write when it’s convenient for us.
I hope you can reach your goal next week. But you did get close and that’s very cool. 😀
There were, I think, six of us that did short stories, and the rest did excerpts. Joy is a little bummed out that it isn’t selling better, but it’s hard to sell anthologies like that, I think.
I wasn’t too awfully discouraged, but I was a little disappointed that I didn’t make my word count. It was completely my fault because I didn’t write on Friday. Just Thursday and Saturday. Next week, I’m going to try really hard to make my goal.
You weren’t far off your word count goal so I think you should be pretty happy with that. We all have good and bad weeks.
Congratulations on the anthology, a really worthy cause.
I was close enough that I felt like I did accomplish something. 🙂 I hope I have some good weeks, because I want to get this thing published before Christmas!
Thanks, Joy Kamen put a lot of work into this anthology.
well done on the book – and your word counts were still good – some weeks are just better than others – tis life:) all the best for this week
Thanks, Alberta!