If anyone was waiting for this, sorry but I flaked out because I essentially had some community meetings and a writing group I attended the other night so this is a bit late.
My modest total for last week:
Writing statistics for the week ending 11 April 2026:
Words: 4,113
Days writing: 7 of 7.
Days revising or planning: 1 of 7 for 60 minutes.
Daily Writing Goals Met (500+ words or 30 minutes of planning/revisions): 7 of 7 days.
I don’t like that I didn’t get up to about 5,000 words, which is the pace I really need to hit if I want to make up the pace I needed to get to 230,000 by the end of 2026, or even match last year’s total of 225,000 (either fiction or nonfiction). As of the end of March, I was at least 6-7,000 words behind where I needed to be to be at that pace.
This past week, I put out the second part of a short story turned novella: what if the plot to kill Lincoln not only failed worse than it actually did, but if the United States discovered the Confederacy had provided more direct assistance than was thought to be the case in real life? I’ll hold off working on it more because I have some blog posts to get done, but the next two parts will be up in a while.
I’ve also made more progress, finally, on my sci-fi environmental horror project with the working title of The Land, The River, and The Waste, (I am so superstitious about revealing a real title until I am closer to publishing), set in a little Mississippi River town in Iowa. I’m deep into the third reveal in the book which will raise the personal stakes for my characters after it hits them on a personal level. It’s a big mess in the best way.
Have a good week everyone, and all you writers keep writing.
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