In July, I wrote 6569 words, which doesn’t feel like a lot. I did, however, take two of my kids on their first international traveling adventure, so there was a lot of kerfluffle for that, and I also took a few days off to go to the Poetry of Society of Texas Annual Conference.
Of those words,
- 251 were for this blog (2 short posts),
- 478 were for my journal (which I may update later with numbers from my paper journal, which I cannot find today,
- 1276 were for handouts, scripts, and slides for lessons (one for the Open Door Writing Group),
- 2630 were on various social media accounts,
- 1346 were poetry (10 poems),
- and 588 were in short stories (3 pieces of flash fiction).
There were only 8 days that I didn’t write anything, despite being out of town a lot this month. I just wrote a lot while I was traveling. There’s something about getting out of your regular every day patterns that gets the writing juices flowing. I wrote a lot in my paper journal, but I didn’t count any of those words because I cannot find it at the moment. Who knows where it is!
I didn’t get any poems or short stories submitted anywhere. I just wasn’t that kind of organized.
As for reading, I didn’t read anything that I didn’t finish this month, mostly because I read very little
…and I finished reading:
- Fire At the Exhibition by T. E. Kinsey (audiobook; mystery)
- Burnout by Emily Nagoski (audiobook; non-fiction – see, I’m dealing with my burnout by reading up on it)
- Wherever You Find Yourself by Tasha Gaines(manuscript; Christian fiction romance, I believe)
Lisa Holcomb 