As you know, I finished an extensive (3-week) novel revision last Thursday night and when I woke up on Good Friday, I was mentally exhausted. Seriously drained. So I really enjoyed the four-day break with my husband. Lots of relaxing, nice food, walking, a little shopping, and even some naps. It was awesome!
I felt recharged and ready to take a few weeks off between projects.
Yeah, that was the original plan. But then I decided it was time to complete the final read-thru of the short story I finished a few weeks ago. So I did that on Tuesday.
The final word count is: 3,173.
Very happy with this story now. I changed the ending during the second draft, but by the time the third draft was done, it ended up being more like a complete rewrite. Sometimes I do that. 😅
In the meantime, I wrote a new story on Sunday night. On my phone. See, after our nap on Saturday, I woke up with the first line of the story in my head, and when I typed it out so I wouldn't forget, I didn't stop until the whole first draft was done.
This violent little tale is actually a prequel to VampNovel1/VampNovel2. Yeah, this is the world that keeps on expanding. Just when I think I'm done, another story pops up. LOL.
Anyway, I worked on the second and third drafts on my phone, and read the final read-thru tonight. And now—after marking all the problems, deleting some excess, taking care of rep words, making the changes on Word, and doing a spell check—it's done.
The final word count is: 2,966.
I'm super excited about this story because it came out of nowhere.
So, that means I've completed six short stories this year. That's 18,720 words worth of shorties. Not bad. 😊
What else did I do? I read the first Murderbot novella and the latest Grady Hendrix short story release. I also went for daily walks, even though it rained a few times. Oh, yeah. We watched and hated the second episode of The Last of Us. Decided we're not watching anymore. After wasting our time on 10 shitty Yellowjackets S3 episodes (this season was seriously bad), we're done watching mediocre shows.
Well, that's it for today. I'm going to enjoy another long weekend with my husband. Three days this time. Nice.
Have a good one!
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4 comments:
Oh my gosh that’s a lot of writing productivity in a short amount of time. Awesome job. Keep on trucking.
Thank you so much! Especially when I wasn't planning to do much but read. LOL. But I can't ignore the muse. 😁
Hope your writing is going well!
I get ya. Sometimes inspiration hits us like a jolt and we come to life like Frankenstein’s monster.
So true!! 😂
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