I broke my writing streak last week. After 171 consecutive days of writing – including a five days where I held onto to streak by the skin of my teeth while on Holidays at the Adelaide Fringe Festival – it was eventually killed off on the final day of holidays by Cyclone Marcia, writing a two-day workshop, and the uncertainty of knowing whether or not we’d be able to fly home.

Of course, February was a pretty rough month for writing even before I lost my thread. February always is. I’m going to finish the month well short of the 50k I need to reach my 600k goal for the year, but I’ve planned for that, and March will be a month of catching up and getting stuff finished.

So what did 171 days of writing get me? More than I thought. Since I started tracking the writing streak, I’ve achieved the following:

  • Finished Crusade (aka Flotsam #3), a novella of about 40k words in first draft.
  • Finished Valiant, the first novella in a werewolf PI series, at about 32k
  • Put together about 20,000 words of short fiction drafts I need to go back and finish
  • Produced 10,000 words on the two novellas that will follow Valiant in my werewolf PI series.
  • Produced 17,000 words on a Space Opera novella
  • Produced 10,000 words of what I’m hoping will be a serialized novel in 2016
  • Produced 36,000 words on an urban fantasy novel draft

Not a bad innings, really. That total is ten times the number of words I achieved in the whole of 2013 and pretty close to 1,000 words a day on average.

Today I printed off a new tracking sheet. Time to start trying to beat my record…

 

 

PeterMBall

PeterMBall

Peter M. Ball is a speculative fiction writer, small press publisher, and writing mentor from Brisbane, Austraila. He publishes his own work through Eclectic Projects and works as the brain in charge at Brain Jar Press.
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