Bad news, I had another sub-par productive week last week. Good news is, I wrapped this journal up to get it done on time like I should have been doing for the past couple weeks.
The numbers:
Writing statistics for the week ending 25 April 2026:
Words: 3,523
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): 5 of 7 days.
Underwhelming since I’m hoping for a minimum of 4,500 words per week and really should try to hit a 5,000 word pace at the moment since I’m trying to catch up to my eventual goal of 225,000-230,000 words for all of 2026.
I’m feeling slightly better about my efforts to complete a rough draft of a 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 now past the 45,000-word mark now. It would be great if I could finish it by Halloween of this year, which would be exactly a year after I started writing it. Then, the plan’s to publish it sometime in the first part of 2027 (even if that’s more May than January 😂. I’m looking forward to sharing it with everyone.
Have a good week everyone, and all you writers keep writing.
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