Again, I’m apologizing for putting this out late Wednesday rather than earlier in the day. It’s getting harder to stick to a schedule for publication around here.
And I know I haven’t been publishing as much for you here in recent weeks, that’s for sure. But I’ll get into that below.
My total for last week:
Writing statistics for the week ending 18 April 2026:
Words: 5.040
Days writing: 7 of 7.
Days revising or planning: 0 of 7 for 0 minutes.
Daily Writing Goals Met (500+ words or 30 minutes of planning/revisions): 6 of 7 days.
Anytime I’m at 5,000 words is a good thing for my eventual goal of 225,000-230,000 words for all of 2026. However, for the first time in a while, I might be thinking of a different goal as my priority, even if the word count goal might at least help me get to the next one.
I’m trying to get a rough draft done of this sci-fi environmental horror project with the working title of The Land, The River, and The Waste, set in a little Mississippi River town in Iowa. I’m past the 40,000-word mark now. I want to have the rough draft done by Halloween of this year, or at the very latest by Christmas. I want this book to be published by the first part of 2027, whatever that takes. I think it’s too interesting of a story to keep to myself.
Have a good week everyone, and all you writers keep writing.
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