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Day 27: Short Story Marathon
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Busy day, but managed to get #21, "Woody and June vs. the Ex" out the door to Dean. Wrote a short sci-fi story called, "Article Seventeen." It's #22 and at 2,800 words is a much better length. Took a few minutes and entered the changes into #2, "Daisy's Heart" from my proofreader...
Day 26: Short Story Marathon
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Finally hit the end of "Woody and June vs. the Ex." At 10,000 words it was a blast to write, but a streak buster for sure. Fun was more important here than the streak. With the four of these I've written (one last month while I was training for this) I'm up over 30,000 words. A f...
Day 25: Short Story Marathon
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Onward with "Woody and June vs. the Ex." Things slowed down a bit today. Our heroes are at the bottom of the Grand Canyon just having escaped a zombie hoard. These stories are very much about place and I have to spend time looking at the landscape and the trails, seeing...
Day 24: Short Story Marathon
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Last night after I posted yesterday's entry, my wife was in kitchen late, cranking the Eagles and cooking. Not wanting to be at my desk anymore, I grabbed my laptop and sipped red wine while she cooked. We chatted and I banged out the start of a story while she cooked. It was str...
Day 23: Short Story Marathon
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Up in front of the computer just before 6 a.m. again, no idea what to write. My brain came up with an interesting sentence written from the perspective of an android that has just been powered up and doesn't know what happened to the world. It's one of those "paint yourself in th...