A normal day today.
For reading, I made progress in the TMNT comics.
For marketing, I recorded audio commentary for the Kickstarter campaign I’m taking part in. I did a few notes about the short story I wrote. That will be fun.
I am pleased to announce that my article on procrastination is in this year’s 2023 Writer’s Digest Yearbook. You can learn more about it here. There are some great articles in here: https://www.writersdigest.com/getting-published/announcing-a-special-issue-of-writers-digest
Tonight, I’ll be appearing on the Super Geeked Up Podcast at 9PM Central/10PM Eastern. This is a show run by Jeff Burns and we’ll talk about all things geeky. Watch here: http://www.supergeekedup.com/.
For data analysis, my macro work continues. My programmer sent me a test for updates to my dictation macro. The demo looked pretty good and will solve a big problem I’m having right now. He should be done by end of the week.
For production, I finished the short story I was working on last night and focused on cleaning it up today. It’s now ready for my editor.
I also finished a magazine article last night and shipped it off to the editor for review. I had a lot going on last night.
I sent the last 3 stories I wrote to my editor so I can get them out to magazines next week. I miscounted my stories earlier in the week—I’m sitting at 12 stories so far for the Bradbury challenge, and I’m 12 weeks into the challenge, so I’m right on track.
If I can, I’ll write another story this week to try to get ahead. I don’t like to be exactly on pace in case I get sick, have to travel, life happens, etc. Being a week ahead is always a good idea if possible, but I’m not going to go crazy to get there.
I plan to hit my quota but I am posting this a bit earlier tonight because I need to concentrate on making progress before the podcast tonight, which will take up a fair chunk of my evening. The word count tonight is technically last night’s, so I’ll update it officially tomorrow.
Anyhoo, have a good night.
YTD Word Count: 229,750
Plan: 1,252,000
Words Left to Write 1,022,250
Words Over/-Under Plan: 9,750
Days Ahead/-Behind: 3.55
Projected Annual Word Count: 1,048,234
Projected Decade Word Count: 10,482,344
Deadline: 12/31/2023
Days to Go Until 12/31/23: 410
Word Count Average: 2,872
