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Writing Journal Y3 Day 27

Recapping my progress (or lack thereof) in writing for the week: Jan 20: 1,561 words or 52.03% of my daily goal Jan 21: 0 words or 0% of my daily goal Jan 22: 2,210 words or 73.67% of my daily goal Jan 23: 4,268 words or 142.27% of my daily goal...

January 27, 2013 Patrick Hester word count, wordcount, writing journal 0 Comments

Writing Journal Y3 Day 20

Just a progress report on my Daily Wordcount Goals.  This is not bragging – it’s me holding myself accountable publicly where I can be mocked should I get lazy I’m shooting for a daily wordcount goal of 3,000 words.  That’s fiction only. My...

January 20, 2013 Patrick Hester word count, wordcount, writing journal 4 Comments

Writing Journal Y2 Day 311

Despite having random issues with my laptop, I’ve managed to do make some decent progress on the Epic Fantasy.  I had set myself a goal of 100,000 words for the novel and I hit that yesterday.  Problem is, I’m not at the end of the...

November 6, 2012 Patrick Hester epic fantasy, word count, writing journal 0 Comments

Writing Journal Y2 Day 282

Got my mojo working again. Changed my deadline date on the Epic Fantasy to October 30th and it spat out a daily goal of 640 words.  Barely hit that on the first day.  Next day, I did 909, then 1,289, then 768, and as of this writing, 2,294 on...

October 8, 2012 Patrick Hester epic fantasy, goal, Life, pov, space opera, story, word count, writing journal 3 Comments

Writing Journal: Y2 Day 9

I was sitting at writers group a couple months back, listening while someone was giving a critique to someone else, when the gentleman to my left leaned over and asked, “Do you write everyday?” “Yes,” I said, explaining my...

January 9, 2012 Patrick Hester achievement, cold as ice, goals, sam kane, word count, Writing, writing journal 2 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 152

After a brief bout of feeling directionless with writing – ie, not knowing what to work on next (having completed Sam Kane: Into the Fire, currently out for query), I have had a really productive couple of weeks. First, I wrote a short...

July 16, 2011 Patrick Hester Life, process, projects, word count, Writing, writing journal 0 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 110

Well.  Where to begin. When last we chatted, I was at a respectable 56K on the novel rewrite (Sam Kane: Into the Fire).  As of this writing, I am now at 73K words – that means I’ve done 17,000 words in the last 10 days. How’s...

June 4, 2011 Patrick Hester Life, novel, word count, writing journal 0 Comments

Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts for Friday, March 25th, 2011 /begin random thoughts I hate it when you go to click a window that’s on top of another window but your mouse pointer is just shy of where it needs to be when your finger comes down to make that...

March 25, 2011 Patrick Hester funny, humor, Life, random thoughts, twitter, word count, Writing 1 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 41

So, work progresses. The sidebar meter for ‘Into the Fire’, the rewrite of the novel, jumped forward from 26k to 29k, which is good.  Unfortunately, I forgot to reset my weekly session target widget in Scrivener on Monday, so my...

March 24, 2011 Patrick Hester critque, journal, Life, word count, Writing 2 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 1

I’m going to try a new thing – keeping a journal here on the blog about my writing.  You may ask yourself – how will this be any different from what you normally do here? Well – I’ll be concentrating solely on the...

February 12, 2011 Patrick Hester journal, word count, Writing 3 Comments
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