I just published a new short story! This is one of the ones I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2020, and was heavily inspired by The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe. Check it out!
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NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Thirty
It’s done! I did it! Hit the big 50k word mark in thirty days! The T-shirt is on the way! Here are all of the stories that I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2020: “Lord of the Slaves” (about 9,200 words) “The Real Hell” (about 3,700 words) “The Scales of the Space Whale” (about 9,800 words) “A… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Thirty
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Eight
Words written: 3,700 Total words written: 46,385 Stories written: 7 Character interviews written: 5 Total words behind: 282 Only 3,615 words to go! I won’t be writing tomorrow, since I don’t generally write on Sundays, but with how close I am to beating this challenge, you can bet that I’ll be pounding out those words… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Eight
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Seven
Words written: 3,140 Total words written: 42,685 Stories written: 6 Character interviews written: 4 Total words behind: 2,315 Catching up in the home stretch! Here’s hoping I can pull through the next few days to the end!
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Six
Words written: 2,682 Total words written: 39,545 Stories written: 6 Character interviews written: 4 Total words behind: 3,788 Catching up! Slowly, but surely. We’re in the home stretch now, and with just over 10k words to go, I think I may actually be able to pull this off. It’s gonna be close, but I may… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Six
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Five
Words written: 1,823 Total words written: 36,863 Stories written: 6 Total words behind: 4,804 We’re coming into the home stretch, and I’ve still got over 13,000 words left. It’s going to be a close one. At this point, if it weren’t for these character interviews, I would be able to keep up. Today was a… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Five
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Four
Words written: 2,414 Total words written: 35,041 Stories written: 6 Total words behind: 4,959 Today I brought the truck into the shop to get an oil change and renew the registration, and it took more time than I thought it would. Spent most of that time up at the BYU Library catching up on back… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Four
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Three
Words written: 1,774 Total words written: 32,627 Stories written: 6 Total words behind: 5,706 Not a very productive day today, and it doesn’t look like tomorrow will be much better. If I were a Democrat, I would keep up my lackluster pace until November 30th and suddenly declare that I “found” another 15,000 totally legitimate… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Three
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-One
Words written: 1,763 Total words written: 30,853 Stories written: 6 Total words behind: 4,147 I’ve been hitting a lot of resistance whenever I try to write a story that’s inspired by drawing Mythulu cards. I suspect that’s because my subconscious mind hasn’t had that much time to work on the story, so the first creation… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-One
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty
Words written: 334 Total words written: 29,090 Stories written: 6 Total words behind: 4,243 Not a good day today. I think I had a minor panic attack yesterday, due to an ongoing plumbing problem in the house, and the baby didn’t let us sleep much last night so I’ve basically been a zombie all day.… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty