In August, I wrote only 3811 words. I was sick the first half of the month and then moving kids from house to house and editing the second half (so technically I lost a bunch of words off my novel, but we’re not counting those as a negative number of words those days). Of those words,
- 206 were for this blog (2 short posts),
- 0 were for my journal (which I cannot find my paper journal, so that might not be true),
- 1612 were for handouts, scripts, and slides for lessons (one for the Open Door Writing Group),
- 1042 were on various social media accounts,
- 217 were poetry (2 poems),
- and 734 were in short stories (4 pieces of flash fiction).
There were 17 days that I didn’t write anything. Mostly I spent the month either ill (the flu, bronchitis, and a sinus infection, oh my!), moving one kid over a room in the house he’s in so another of my children could move into his old room (and helping that second child as well – child #2 in this scenario was far easier to move) or trying to edit my novel Caro’s Quest down to a reasonable number of words so I can turn it into the editor (today, I hope!). Also, life was still too chaotic, so I didn’t get any poems or short stories submitted anywhere.
As for reading, once again, I didn’t leave any books unread, but I finished reading a ridiculous number of short e-books, all by Martha Wells (the first published author that ever gave me advice – she worked in IT at Ocean Drilling Program at the same time I was a student worker in the publishing department – she was so nice about it when my boss sat me down at her table at lunch one day):
- All Systems Red
- Compulsory
- Artificial Conditions
- Rogue Protocol
- Obsolescence
- Exit Strategy
- Home
- Fugitive Telemetry
- Rapport
- Network Effect
That brings me up to 42 books finished this year and 13 partially read (that number went down because I finished two partially read books). 🙂
Lisa Holcomb 