Feral Intensity

April Writing

1^st – 6^th: 1301
7^th – 13^th: 10827
14^th – 20^th: 4350
21^st – 27^th: 840 (so far)

I’ve written on 16 out of 22 days this month (I’m not counting today yet), and have just under 2700 words to meet April’s word count goal of 20k.

I’m a little over 18k words ahead for my yearly word count goal. Not bad, considering I only wrote on 38 days of the first quarter’s 90. I’ve upped my “days written on” from 42.2% to 72.7%.

The decision to put The Psionics back online this month has certainly helped. It’s easy to write when you’re enthusiastic about a story. You’re eager to write and the words flow like water from brain to page.

I’m a little surprised to report that I seem to be doing more typing than writing long-hand lately. I’ve written a couple of sentences on paper, then opened up a new Word doc and started over. That’s bad news for the 4.5 cases of spirals in my closet, yet good news for streamlining and saving some time.

Another decision that’s helped my productivity increase: I left the KDP forum. Amazon did some sort of overhaul to it, and for the past few weeks or so, every single attempt to post resulted in an error. If by some miracle there wasn’t an error, posts ended up in the moderation queue. Either way, the forum’s become rather useless for discussions as many other members reported the same issues.

What’s the point of answering/explaining if the person asking isn’t going to see your response for several hours or even a couple of days?

I’d cut down on time spent there because of that, and finally left completely. It was a good source for blog fodder from time to time, and an easy way to spend time helping others out by answering questions/explaining things, but I’d let participating there become too much of a time hog.

Anyway, it’s beginning to look as though 2013 is definitely going to be the year I get my writing groove back on. Woohoo!

I began using WriteTrack in March, and it’s been very helpful as far breaking down my word count goals into manageable, daily bits. Yes, I know, both Storybox and Word have some stats or at least word counts available, and since I have Excel, I can create word count spreadsheets to track my progress, but for some reason, using WriteTrack works better for me.

Maybe I just loves me some bar charts?

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It doesn’t appear that I’ll finish Silk & Sin this month, which means no new release for March. As there’s still a chance of having 2 releases in another month, I’m not going to cry over missing my release goal this month.

Not much of a crier, me. ;P

Why am I not going to finish Silk & Sin this month? THE PSIONICS.

I am currently on this huge writing high. Like, all energetic and excited and bouncing off the freakin’ walls over it. The way I used to be while writing, way back in 2006-2009, when the Plot Bunnies were flooding my brain.

Damn if I didn’t miss this feeling the past few years.

So far, I’ve done brief outlines and realized there will be 5 “seasons” to The Psionics, the first of which is Emergence. One of my editors, JC Montgomery, helped tidy up the description for it. Four parts are online, with another 14 scheduled, and 5 more written so far.

There are a few other items:

Character Bios – 7 of 18 live.
Canon Extras – Shorts that fit within the series, 1 live, another scheduled, and another 9 planned/waiting to be written. Readers can make requests for shorts that would fit here too.
Non-Canon Extras – This section will be for requests by readers who want “What if?s” answered, or alternative somethings.
Playlist – All of the music I listen to that fits the series or has inspired particular scenes. Probably too many listed already.

As I’m restarting the whole web fiction thing, I’ve begun slow, committing to weekly updates every Thursday, and am good through July 25^th. Character Bios are scheduled daily, except on Thursdays, until they’re all live. Canon Extras will take a bit longer to start posting, and will likely be spread out to 2 per month.

I do not have a set number of words to reach for each post. They’ll be as long as they need to, and so far, most are running between 500-1600 words.

I should probably mention that one part of The Psionics, One for the Road, was included in an anthology published in 2010: Other Sides – 12 Web Fiction Tales.

It all boils down to being really, REALLY excited to pull this project back out and have a clear path to finishing it. I hope that those who decide to take a look are intrigued, and stick around to become readers and help me maintain my current enthusiasm levels.

Basically, I’m declaring April to be my “web fiction” month, and will continue concentrating on The Psionics before taking a break to finish Silk & Sin.

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